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  • At Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, players were debuting numbered uniforms: Lou Gehrig wore No. 4; Babe Ruth, about to hit his five hundredth home run, wore No. 3.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, plans were afoot for Laura's debut.†   (source)
  • The next year, he intended to debut a collection in the Art Deco style.†   (source)
  • My French TV debut will be on "Paris's Most Wanted.†   (source)
  • Friday arrived, and with that came our debut on the Illea Capital Report.†   (source)
  • " "So that was your debut," I said.†   (source)
  • Noah and Simon and I commiserated; as much as Owen had captured our admiration, he had risked embarrassing himself—and all of us—by being the instrument of Hester's debut at Gravesend Academy.†   (source)
  • My parents invited all the couples from the Joy Luck Club to witness my debut.†   (source)
  • The Incident debuted at number one on the NY Times!†   (source)
  • For those of you who are not familiar with the character, the Punisher debuted in a Marvel comic book series in the 1970s.†   (source)
  • Snyder is Brooklyn-born and was raised in Los Angeles by two professional pianists of Russian and Romanian descent, and his mother had been his accompanist for his European debut in Vienna in 1966.†   (source)
  • My debut!†   (source)
  • Many of the women were eager to debut new dresses, an expensive and potentially maddening feat depending on what sort of textile scraps you found at the Exchange.†   (source)
  • Unable to attract a national distributor, the Shooting Gallery had no choice but to relegate Marley's movie debut to that most ignoble of celluloid fates.†   (source)
  • He sat on the kitchen bench and tried to read a novel which, according to the back cover text, was the sensational debut of a teenage feminist.†   (source)
  • Within months of its debut in 1996, Blue's Clues was trouncing Sesame Street in the ratings.†   (source)
  • But on balance, the evidence suggests that they slightly delay the debut of sexual activity; once it has been initiated, however, kids are less likely to use contraception.†   (source)
  • "When the lights came up in the Venetian Room, where Tony Bennett had once debuted his signature song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," Mortenson felt his heart tugging him toward the woman he'd just met.†   (source)
  • But even in accepting, John did all he could to minimize attention to his moviemaking debut.†   (source)
  • Moritz," wrote Levy, "whose debut novel was emboldened by his eschatological speculations, has here shifted his focus to pure scatology.†   (source)
  • My band, the Holy Rollers, it's our Jackson High debut.†   (source)
  • When Shiva learned to dance Bharatnatyam (and became Hema's sishya and she was already talking about his arangetram—his debut), I first began to see him as separate from me.†   (source)
  • Brooke had recently gone solo and her debut album, Kiss This, had been racking up awards, too, so we'd been bumping into each other a lot at the various ceremonies.†   (source)
  • Then'again, very few were aware the news that had punctuated the wires over the last forty-eight hours had anything to do with more than a crazed American who'd kidnapped Raison Pharmaceutical's chief virologist on the eve of the Raison Vaccine's long-awaited debut.†   (source)
  • McAllen won the game that Frankie covered, though it ended without the drama that marked Monterrey's debut.†   (source)
  • I shall chase the society matrons out of my newsroom with a cattle prod when they come in with pictures from the debut.†   (source)
  • His pleas for her to come grew more urgent even than those he had sent during his difficult debut as Vice President.†   (source)
  • Even after our squadron's involvement with the F-117 during its debut in Panama, as part of Operation Just Cause, we had been warned again of repercussions if anyone said anything, including being threatened with imprisonment.†   (source)
  • We thought he might bring Momma back with him then, but Caroline was making her New Haven debut as Musetta in La Boheme on the twenty-first.†   (source)
  • A new comic book character named Iron Man makes his debut.†   (source)
  • The decision to give her daughter a formal debut cost Mrs. Taggart a great deal of anxious thought.†   (source)
  • Come May, when Felicity and I make our debuts, Ann will go to work for them as governess to their two children.†   (source)
  • If there was a reason to have a tea--wedding, baby, debut, retirement, charity drive--Mrs. Poole was ready to have it.†   (source)
  • As it happened, Zooey had made a formal and serious debut as a public performer at the age of seven.†   (source)
  • I was a college boy of seventeen at my debut.†   (source)
  • What did they say last night about my fiery debut at the Games?   (source)
  • Portia and Cinna receive huge cheers, of course, they've been brilliant, had a dazzling debut.   (source)
  • "You promised we wouldn't give the magic back until after our debuts.†   (source)
  • For a brief while, the women ask us questions: Are we looking forward to our debuts?†   (source)
  • Now, we must prepare for our debuts!†   (source)
  • When the teachers are not around, the girls fall into excited chatter about their approaching debuts.†   (source)
  • She was delaying my debut to give everyone time to take notice of me.†   (source)
  • This is exactly what happened to Hatsumomo in my eyes after she brought my debut to a standstill.†   (source)
  • I was very eager to tell Mameha about Pumpkin's debut.†   (source)
  • The Holy Rollers took a break, and Link came over to bask in the glory of his musical debut.†   (source)
  • The San Antonio was a terrible place to make a season debut after a long layoff.†   (source)
  • And every girl here shall make her debut.†   (source)
  • "And now, if you don't mind, I should like to dance with my daughter on the occasion of her debut."†   (source)
  • Yes," he says, seeing my expression, "I know she must make her debut in order to claim her fortune.†   (source)
  • "Once you make your debut," Ann repeats, swallowing the last of her chocolate.†   (source)
  • I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut.†   (source)
  • I shall expect you at Easter, and we shall speak of your debut—and a party!†   (source)
  • It is only an hour into her debut and already she has them spinning like tops.†   (source)
  • My grandmother did insist I make my debut as a condition of her will.†   (source)
  • It is decided that after my debut, Father will travel to a warmer clime.†   (source)
  • But the unofficial start of these festivities is Lady Markham's ball in honor of Felicity's debut.†   (source)
  • Why, I'm sure Lady Denby would host a ball for your debut that would put all the others to shame.†   (source)
  • I shouldn't wear it before my debut but I can't resist.†   (source)
  • Winifred was planning a debut for her, a rite of passage that had not yet taken place, and until it did she was not considered eligible.†   (source)
  • The trial had been the courtroom debut of Chatham County's new district attorney, thirty-seven-year-old Spencer Lawton, Jr. The verdict had been a crushing defeat, and it left observers wondering whether Lawton was capable of discharging the responsibilities of his new office.†   (source)
  • I ought to be given a debut, she said, with all the proper trimmings — teas to meet the important society mothers, receptions and fashionable outings, a formal dance with eligible young men invited.†   (source)
  • In that case, said Winifred, the whole thing would have to be arranged, then presented as a fait accompli; or, even better, the debut could be dispensed with altogether if its primary object had already been accomplished, the primary object being a strategic marriage.†   (source)
  • Mr. Griffen was the brother-in-law of the late Laura Chase, who made her posthumous debut as a novelist this spring, and is survived by his sister Mrs. Winifred (Griffen) Prior, the noted socialite, and by his wife, Mrs. Iris (Chase) Griffen, as well as by his ten-year-old daughter Aimee.†   (source)
  • It's true that in the better geisha districts of Tokyo, such as Shimbashi and Akasaka, a girl must master the arts if she expects to make her debut.†   (source)
  • Let's agree, then, that you'll be ready to make your debut as soon as you've stopped a man in his tracks just by flicking your eyes at him.†   (source)
  • From what I'd heard about Mother, she might have insisted I be sent to school — the Alma Ladies' College, or some such worthy, dreary institution — to learn something functional but equally dreary, like shorthand; but as for a debut, that would have been vanity.†   (source)
  • Hatsumomo had certainly pushed her from the very day of her debut, so much that she'd begun to lose weight lately and hardly looked herself.†   (source)
  • After ten or fifteen minutes the two women agreed on a figure representing how much I'd earned since my debut.†   (source)
  • She added the "to-be" because Mameha and I wouldn't officially be sisters until the time of my debut as an apprentice geisha.†   (source)
  • I was so eager to make my debut that even if Mameha had challenged me to make a tree fall by looking at it, I'm sure I would have tried.†   (source)
  • Her eyes never met mine for more than a flicker of an instant; probably she couldn't help thinking of the effect her debut was having on me.†   (source)
  • By the time a girl is finally ready to make her debut as an apprentice, she needs to have established a relationship with a more experienced geisha.†   (source)
  • When she was satisfied that I understood her, she said: "Following your debut, you'll be an apprentice geisha until the age of eighteen."†   (source)
  • I told Mameha that afternoon about Pumpkin's debut; and for months afterward I hoped she would say the time had come for my apprenticeship to begin as well.†   (source)
  • "I mean to say that I've been speaking with Waza-san"—this was the name of her fortune-teller—"and he has suggested the third day in November as a suitable time for your debut."†   (source)
  • During the spring of 1934, after I'd been in training for more than two years, Hatsumomo and Mother decided that the time had come for Pumpkin to make her debut as an apprentice geisha.†   (source)
  • I could sense that he was losing patience; heaven knows he'd certainly been kind in the months since I'd made my debut, permitting me to attend to him while he ate lunch and allowing Mameha to bring me to the party at his Kyoto estate.†   (source)
  • Every afternoon during the week leading up to my debut, Auntie dressed me in the complete regalia of an apprentice geisha and made me walk up and down the dirt corridor of the okiya to build up my strength.†   (source)
  • I don't know if this will make sense to you, but my mind on the eve of my debut was like a garden in which the flowers have only begun to poke their faces up through the soil, so that it is still impossible to tell how things will look.†   (source)
  • And with that, she led me across the main avenue to the apartment of Waza-san, her fortune-teller, and set him to work finding auspicious dates for all the various events that would lead up to my debut—such as going to the shrine to announce my intentions to the gods, and having my hair done for the first time, and performing the ceremony that would make sisters of Mameha and me.†   (source)
  • The horseless carriage was just arriving in San Francisco, and its debut was turning into one of those colorfully unmitigated disasters that bring misery to everyone but historians.†   (source)
  • Debuting seven years earlier at Laura Keene's Theatre on Broadway, it soon became the first blockbuster play in American history.†   (source)
  • At the age of eighty-five, Busch made his acting debut with a small part in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.†   (source)
  • The next day the Browns and I walked the convention center floor with Rick, who introduced us to Ted Nugent, an avid supporter of the military who had just seen the debut of The Adam Brown Story.†   (source)
  • Smith didn't want to risk Seabiscuit's soundness by running on a slippery track, so he scratched him and moved his scheduled Santa Anita debut to January 16,1937.†   (source)
  • SEAL Team FOUR was where you made your debut, Stabbing your face on a dive would be nothing new At Stennis you proved insects were a menace, First bees and then ants breached your defenses.†   (source)
  • On the evening of May 1, 2011—a little over a year since Adam's death—Kelley sat down to relax on the couch after an emotionally draining trip to Pittsburgh with Janice and Larry for the debut of a documentary called The Adam Brown Story on the NRA Life of Duty online television network.†   (source)
  • These images were now rapidly available thanks to wirephoto services, which had debuted in Life in the month that Pollard, Howard, and Smith formed their partnership.†   (source)
  • This resulted in The Adam Brown Story (vvww. nralifeofduty. tv/patriot —profiles/video/a-tribute-to-adam-brown, www.fearlessnavyseal.com), a documentary that was set to debut in April 2011 at the NRA Convention and annual meeting in Pittsburgh, the same venue where I was going to speak about ODA 574.†   (source)
  • Come Saturday, I shall curtsy before my Queen and make my debut in society while my family and friends look on.†   (source)
  • You'll stay here until your debut."†   (source)
  • On your debut and on that other matter.†   (source)
  • "Promise me we might hold on to this magic a bit longer, until I can secure my future—just until our debut," she pleads.†   (source)
  • I overheard Mother telling Mrs. Twitt that if Miss Worthington does not make her debut, her inheritance is forfeit.†   (source)
  • I should be thinking of my own debut.†   (source)
  • If I do not make my debut, my inheritance shall go to the Foundling Hospital, and I shall be at Father's mercy.†   (source)
  • Castle and Sons, dressmakers, lies in Regent Street, and this is where we have come to have a dress made for my debut.†   (source)
  • "Grandmama tells me you'll be the loveliest girl in London for your debut," Father says when I join him in his study.†   (source)
  • I cannot wait to make my debut.†   (source)
  • Come May, I shall make my debut a full year early, for it has been decided by all parties involved that at nearly seventeen I am ready and that it would do me good to have my season now.†   (source)
  • But Felicity must make her debut.†   (source)
  • Her grandmother's will states most emphatically that she must make her debut 'as a lady in fine moral standing,' else the money shall go to the Foundling Hospital, and Felicity will be at the mercy of the admiral to chart her course."†   (source)
  • Will you join our debut ball?†   (source)
  • Will I survive my debut?†   (source)
  • The date of that encounter in Hoss's joyless attic was—like her April Fools' Day debut—instantly memorable, and remains so still, for it was the birthday of three of my heroes: of my father, of the autumn-haunted Thomas Wolfe, and of wild Nat Turner, that fanatical black demon whose ghost had seared my imagination throughout my boyhood and youth.†   (source)
  • It was almost like making my debut or something.†   (source)
  • Out of children's parties grow young girls' debut parties.†   (source)
  • Foaming with brilliant slapdash improvisation Harry Tugman declaimed: "Members of the Younger Set were charmingly entertained last night at a dinner dance given at Snotwood, the beautiful residence of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Firkins, in honor of their youngest daughter, Gladys, who made her debut this season.†   (source)
  • Such was Buck Duane's debut in the little outlaw hamlet of Ord.†   (source)
  • On the night of her debut she is, for all her strange, stray wisdom, quite like a happy little girl.†   (source)
  • The previous year she had made a dazzling debut fringed by a heavy thunder-cloud of bills.†   (source)
  • Here, one should never make one's debut with a scandal.†   (source)
  • That is a rather commonplace debut.†   (source)
  • Emma made her toilet with the fastidious care of an actress on her debut.†   (source)
  • Marguerite St. Just had first made her DEBUT in artistic Parisian circles, at the very moment when the greatest social upheaval the world has ever known was taking place within its very walls.†   (source)
  • She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans.†   (source)
  • She was applauded all the more; and her debut with Faust seemed about to bring her a new success, when suddenly …. a terrible thing happened.†   (source)
  • The light of the debut still lingered on the horizon, but the cloud had thickened; and suddenly it broke.†   (source)
  • MRS. CONNAGE: I'm perfectly serious—for all I know she may be at the Cocoanut Grove with some football player on the night of her debut.†   (source)
  • However, the interest was general, and this Saturday's debut in the forum, whatever it may have been to Bathsheba as the buying and selling farmer, was unquestionably a triumph to her as the maiden.†   (source)
  • As yet, Chingachgook had never fired a shot in anger, and the debut of his companion in warfare is known to the reader.†   (source)
  • Whilst her appearance was an utter failure (as her husband felt with a sort of rage), Mrs. Rawdon Crawley's debut was, on the contrary, very brilliant.†   (source)
  • It was the first attention which Wilson had ever received at the hands of any party; it was a sufficiently humble one, but it was a recognition of his debut into the town's life and activities at last; it was a step upward, and he was deeply gratified.†   (source)
  • He recognized her, guessed her feelings, saw that it was her debut, remembered her conversation at the window, and with an expression of pleasure on his face approached Countess Rostova.†   (source)
  • In these matters Morris had an excellent grace, which flung a picturesque interest even over the account of his debut in the commission business—a subject as to which his companion earnestly questioned him.†   (source)
  • She devoured, without skipping a word, all the accounts of first nights, races, and soirees, took interest in the debut of a singer, in the opening of a new shop.†   (source)
  • I made my debut as singer and fortune-teller that night at Limraigh, with considerable success.   (source)
  • Letting Algernon out of his cage would throw the meeting into chaos, and after all this was Burt's debut into the rat-race of academic preferment.†   (source)
  • I ordered it specially in honor of your fiery debut.   (source)
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