tricks of the trade; what's the trick of getting this chair to fold up?

He had sincere ambition, and he would soak up information like a ShamWOW sponge.

Her memoir describes what it’s like to hate the Nazis — as she and her husband did — but to protest unheroically: making a snide comment when a building super rants against “unpatriotic people”; not finding humor in a party member’s joke; walking out of a movie in which a Jewish prime minister is executed (“the audience burst into applause”).

from my vncles country of Medea, Where all my youth I haue bene gouerned, […]