When I wanted to play the trombone in elementary school, my parents got me one from the local pawn shop. Good decision as I never amounted to much of a musician.
They called the First World War the Great War until the Second World War came along. Actually, historians consider the Seven Years’ War/French and Indian War the true first world war.
I once worked in a federal government legal office. When they were hiring new lawyers, they only interviewed candidates who had graduated from a law school listed in the top one third of rankings.
I have been reading “As the Earth Turns”, the 1933 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about life in rural Maine at the turn of the 20th Century. One of the married women is referred to as having had “an early child”.
When I wanted to play the trombone in elementary school, my parents got me one from the local pawn shop. Good decision as I never amounted to much of a musician.