Citations:story

sense: soap opera

 * Alice Walker, "The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?":
 * We had managed to buy our first television set. It was battered and overpriced, but my mother had gotten used to watching the afternoon soap operas, and nothing could satisfy her but a continuation of her "stories."
 * 2002, Jane Heller, Cha Cha Cha, Kensington Books, ISBN 0758203055, page 173:
 * "Mrs. Waxman is watching her stories," said Nora as she led me into the den where my mother was watching a videotaped episode of "As the World Turns."
 * 2003, Sandra Brown, Hello, Darkness, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0743261011, page 235:
 * "Shut the goddamn door. I can't see my TV with that light shining on it, and my story 's on."
 * "You and your stories."
 * His mother said nothing else until the soap opera went into a commercial break.

Architecture

 * 1900,, , chapter I:
 * The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.