Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have run out of rubes, and they are about to run out of towns. "I just think show business is dying out," says Colonel Alter's wife Helen. "You can't get good freaks any more. Seems like they're all dying off." Lew agrees. "They take 'em and put 'em in an institution now," he moans. "They don't went 'em exposed. Now I ain't going to mention any names, but I know an insane asylum where there's three good pinheads right...
...Sunday school, Gene Skerbeck has the last word: "It used to be that you could take a show into the back country and those people had never seen anything like it. But they've all seen it on TV now. The rubes and the suckers are playing golf now. Oh, I don't say there aren't some rubes left, but where they are I don't know. Sometimes I think the only real suckers left are in the business...
...Imperial Records actually brought out the first hoop disk (Hula Hoop) on the West Coast last June, but the craze had not yet reached its shimmying climax, and the record failed to take...
Where Quaker Hoover takes issue with tradition is the designation of the rider on the red horse as Pestilence ("and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword"). Hoover points out that in more than 20 different kinds of disasters and punishments mentioned in Revelation, pestilence does not occur once. St. John, he thinks, "had some other idea in mind" for the red horseman −"the name which we know in modern times as Revolution...
...John's horseman had no good purpose ... We do not allow our imaginations to extend to the idea that St. John was prophesying Communism, even though one is tempted, partly because of the prophetic statement that power was given to the horseman 'to take peace from the world...