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  • Andrew Cutraro for The Wall Street Journal A first-family entrée of lamb with a purée sauce, served on Reagan china.

    Cooking for the Commander in Chief Elizabeth Williamson 2011

  • I guess the former first-family needs money more than poor kids need after school programs.

    Obama Blasts His Staff Over "Punjab" Hillary Controversy 2009

  • So, go talking points, Bo, as a first-family failure, could have conceivably met the fate of other dogs who don't fit in, and been dropped off at a shelter.

    Peggy Drexler: There's a New Dog in Town 2009

  • And, later, Erica Hill later reports on the first-family wedding.

    CNN Transcript May 12, 2008 2008

  • COOPER: Well, in case you haven't heard, it was a first-family wedding over the weekend.

    CNN Transcript May 12, 2008 2008

  • The Beverly Hillbillies were a pretty good teevee representation of Arkansas's first-family types.

    And Now It's Tomorrow The Daily Growler 2006

  • Lois was 'first-family' but poor when she married Peter, but he's been giving her an allowance of $20,000 a year for several years -- not for running the house, but for her personal use.

    Murder at Bridge Anne Austin

  • He might have added that Mrs. Wyeth, being under many obligations, pecuniary and otherwise, to her wealthy Chicago relative, would need only a hint from him to give Mary-'Gusta the care and attention of a parent, a very particular, Boston first-family parent.

    Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • You ain't an old maid; no, nor a Boston first-family widow, neither.

    Mary-'Gusta Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • I'd even be willing to have him keep the grocery store even if it did mean that he wasn't quite as first-family as Judge

    Phyllis Maria Thompson Daviess 1898

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