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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains satirical commentary on 1920s American life, particularly targeting Prohibition-era concerns and public figures. **"Below Zero"** parodies modernist literary pretension—a overwrought story about a man waiting in freezing cold for his lover, using absurdly purple prose ("blood froze in his pulses"). The joke: she arrives with a simple "let's go to the theater"—deflating the dramatic tension entirely. It's mockery of self-serious avant-garde writing. **"Judge Remarks"** section contains brief political jabs: Count Karolyi (Hungarian political figure) is labeled a "revolutionist" for advocating free speech; Dr. Harris blames jazz and liquor for insanity (the commentary questions this causation); various officials are criticized over Prohibition enforcement inconsistencies and the vague language of liquor seizure laws; President Coolidge's charitable reputation is treated skeptically regarding America's motives. The overall tone suggests Judge's conservative skepticism toward modernism, radical politics, and government credibility during Prohibition.

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Below Zero (A Modernist Story) I" was a bitter cold night. The furnace fire was out. Denny Dennison’s face was cold, as cold as an almond in a nut sundae. His heart was cold and heavy like a picnic ogg in his bosom, Tt was midnight. He had driven lay with mad recklessness. Is! Nails! ‘Ten-penny nails — Idriven them all day without a umer. ‘The stinging in his eves was mad- dening him! Damn that pepper ' anywa In the park across the road the gaunt black trees Jed Tike giant Senegaml Hea Hed waited long hours. of perhaps weeks. by the garden it seemed to him, Perhaps she didn’t care! Andon a night lke this! Forty below ger The « crept through his clothes like a sinister thing and gripped his heart tighter, tighter. The: life blood fro Uh turned to icieles and fell in frozen this feet. His fingers were frozen. He picked them off one by « turing: “She loves me, s in ghosts afrolie, en! ‘This was unbearable! in his pulses, His re heaps on the snow murs not. Hours later, it seemed to Denny, a soft warm arm stole around his neck. “Come on, dear.” she whispered, “if we hurry we'll get t in time for the last act Nate Collier me, youse just de Mack parts of a crossword puzle, A Triolet Sie whispered to me ‘That my love was returned. Tt’s of no use to me So T guess [am spurned, She whispered to me That my love was returned, 1.0. Hrko aN osm OF Titosk CON. TINUED Stones Hey, author, if you think Fin gonna hang here till the nest issue of the magazine, you're crazy \Funnybones / \ Every town has its steal works the City Hall. ( Som Lament Whisky comes in pocket flasks, Cider comes int j Wine it Agent comes incognito. And takes them all away! JUDGE /\ REMARKS Count Karolyi—"Free speech is ourown platform, We cannot adve- it unless we grant it.” Now we know he’s a rerolutionist! ow Dr. Isham Harris, Superintendent of the Brooklyn State Hospital for the Insane "I lie, jazz and poor liquor are responsible for the increase in insanity.” Why not the other way about? Newspaper Headline —" Liquor ship can be seized anywhere, court de- vides.” “May be seid anywhere would be a more accurate use of the language. UL OS. Attorney Buckuer—"Vhe Police Department New York) alone during the last eight weeks has received 100 complaints of liquor violations.” Somebody must hace been drinking! address.” dent ¢ says the sarcastic London Morning Post, dyes inaugural “might almost: give the impression that the Unite States are a philanthropic institu. tion” Well. our European debtors evi- dently think we are. Thomas day. of Panch—"More sinners are made by Sunday practice on the saxophone than by Sunday golf. No question about it if profanity is the test. Count Romain de Tirtof’ Erte am so glut women are again thin.” The blind are always so cheerful! President Ray Lyman Wilbur, Leland Stanford University —"The Hig: eastern universities a being cclipsed by our western universities.” comicbooks.com