Word: doorsteps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Golden Ass of Apuleius, a stranger in a Greek town, weaving his way home late at night from a party, thinks himself attacked on his doorstep .by three footpads, and stabs them all. The next morning, badly hung over, he is dragged before the townspeople and accused of murder by the wailing widows and orphans of the dead. While the audience screams for his head, the terrified stranger is forced to draw back the blanket covering the corpses-and discovers that his "victims" were nothing more than three inflated wineskins that had been tied to his doorpost. Everyone...
...will you stoop so low as to air the garments of an old rascal-an atheist-such as Sigmund Freud? Your story was superbly done, but have you ever paused to consider that ". . . the rowdyism, riot and revolt of the youth" can be laid at the doorstep of Freud & Co. You could make another bundle and lay it at the front stoop of the National Education Association-they picked up the ball and recast it as progressive (permissive) education...
Alec Goodrich is a tawny-eyed, well-heeled, philandering novelist. He lives in a wild part of Wales surrounded by "strange, Wagnerian scenery" and with the loud Atlantic roaring on his doorstep. He defies the Inspector (and shocks Harold) by traveling first-class with a third-class ticket and investing his money, his sacred money, in absurd companies...
...wife were not bothered, but the ouster of her children so outraged Senora Arcaya that she took to spending hours on the telephone denouncing the dictator to her society friends. One Christmas the elder Arcayas found their phone, ripped out and tied with a red ribbon, on the doorstep...
Last month, however, Transamerica nudged into Eccles' backyard; it bought three banks and four branches (for about $2,000,000) in Idaho from Walter E. Cosgriff, longtime Eccles rival and onetime RFC director. Last week Transamerica went onto the doorstep; it agreed to buy Salt Lake City's Walker Bank & Trust Co., Utah's oldest and second biggest bank, for $200 a share, will probably end by paying $14 million...