So reduced were their finances, and exhausted their credit, that the acting managers, as they were called, were once obliged to repair to the theatre on the evening of a play, dinnerless.

However subtle the social pecking order may have been, the outsider entering the famous town with high expectations saw it in the cold light of day shrink into a philistine backwoods dump.

That first offer turned out to be a job as a laminator at Interior Form Tops, a countertop manufacturing firm […]

The chalcolithic Corded Ware culture of North-Central and Eastern Europe has been found to display archaeological as well as genetic affinities to the penecontemporary Yamnaya horizon of the Pontic–Caspian Steppe.