medicine show
noun
: a traveling show using entertainers to attract a crowd among which remedies or nostrums are sold
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But rather than continue shining a light on the hidden costs of this tech industry debacle, The Post has chosen to join the medicine show.
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Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
Hurt drew inspiration from disparate sources, including ragtime and music from minstrel and medicine shows.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
How did this music surpass its muses from the holds to the plantation to the medicine shows and minstrels and brothels and jukes, to the Grammys red carpet, lavish video shoots and MTV Cribs?
—Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
Robertson specialized in portraits of bygone figures and institutions, writing odes to Confederate soldiers, blacksmiths, medicine shows and whistle stops, his tall tales given weight and energy by the heft of the Band.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
In the classic format of the old-time medicine show, a snake-oil salesman traveled from town to town with various entertainers in tow.
—James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
At the time, her parents owned and ran a traveling medicine show in Texas.
—New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
Dennison, who grew up performing in her parents' traveling medicine show, was born in an Arizona men's prison in 1923, according to The New York Times.
—Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 1 Nov. 2021
Jo-Carroll Dennison spent a rootless childhood in a traveling medicine show in the 1920s and ’30s with little money or formal education.
—New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
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Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
Hurt drew inspiration from disparate sources, including ragtime and music from minstrel and medicine shows.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
How did this music surpass its muses from the holds to the plantation to the medicine shows and minstrels and brothels and jukes, to the Grammys red carpet, lavish video shoots and MTV Cribs?
—Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
Robertson specialized in portraits of bygone figures and institutions, writing odes to Confederate soldiers, blacksmiths, medicine shows and whistle stops, his tall tales given weight and energy by the heft of the Band.
—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
In the classic format of the old-time medicine show, a snake-oil salesman traveled from town to town with various entertainers in tow.
—James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
At the time, her parents owned and ran a traveling medicine show in Texas.
—New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
Dennison, who grew up performing in her parents' traveling medicine show, was born in an Arizona men's prison in 1923, according to The New York Times.
—Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 1 Nov. 2021
Jo-Carroll Dennison spent a rootless childhood in a traveling medicine show in the 1920s and ’30s with little money or formal education.
—New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
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“Medicine show.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medicine%20show. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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