Judge — October 29, 1921 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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# "Toot Sweet" - Judge Magazine, October 28, 1921 This cartoon by René Vincent depicts a motorcycle with sidecar speeding rapidly, titled "Toot Sweet" (a pun on the French phrase "tout de suite," meaning "immediately"). The image shows a fashionable woman operating the motorcycle while a formally dressed man in a top hat sits in the sidecar, appearing startled or alarmed by their speed. The motion lines and scattered debris suggest reckless, dangerously fast driving. The satire likely comments on the 1920s phenomenon of women gaining independence—including driving automobiles—and the social anxieties this generated among older generations represented by the formal gentleman. The joke plays on the contrast between modern female autonomy and traditional masculine discomfort with changing social norms.