Judge, 1933-10 · page 10 of 38
Judge — October 1933 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several satirical pieces from an era when the **NRA (National Recovery Administration)** was active—likely the 1930s New Deal period. **Top cartoon**: A man confronts another about alimony payments during a car accident, satirizing divorce litigation and financial obligations. **Middle section ("Revised")**: Brief jokes mocking college athletics (star athletes working menial jobs), wives' preoccupation with appearance and gossip, and housing costs under NRA price controls. **Lower cartoon**: Shows a woman threatening a man alone—likely satirizing changing gender dynamics and women's newfound assertiveness. **"Exit Chivalry" poem**: The central satire. It contrasts idealized past courtship (men kissing women's hands publicly) with domestic reality (men striking wives), then inverts the equation: now women "score" by hitting men in retaliation. The point: public displays of chivalry are hypocritical when domestic abuse was normalized. The satirist argues men don't deserve public courtesy they didn't extend privately. The final joke equates a man waiting for his wife's bridge club to leave with extreme hunger—mocking domestic ennui.
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Judge Revised Don't cross your bridge partners. A real jerk-water college is one in which the star half-back has to work in the dining hall in order to pay } way through school. And our wife has one of those sta- tistical minds. You know, always think- ing about figures—her’s and the neigh- borhood women’s. And this Fall we are going to move to an apartment house that operates un- der an NRA agreement—that is. No Rent Advance. “Aha, Mr. Tierney, I've got you alone at last.” Exit Chivalry I days when men kissed women’s hands At public fetes with courtly grace, At home they gave them reprimands Or glumly smacked the wifely face. Sut now at home the women score— smack the men, they wax pro- fane— So public chivalry is more Than they're entitled to obtain. —W. E. Farpstern. Add similes: Hungry as a man wait- ing for the bridge club to go home. comicbooks.com