Judge, 1934-01 · page 9 of 36
Judge — January 1934 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis for Modern Readers This 1927 *Judge* page satirizes Prohibition-era America through two pieces: **Top cartoon ("Boy, I got you the swellest looking nurse!")**: A man presents an elaborate, mummy-wrapped patient to his wife. The joke is that he's disguised a liquor bottle as a "nurse" to sneak alcohol past her—playing on Prohibition's ban on alcohol sales and the common practice of hiding booze during this period. **Lower section**: A poem laments the decline of cocktail culture. Written by Arthur L. Lippmann in 1927 and reprinted from six years prior, it nostalgically recalls the "old cocktail shaker" now covered in tarnish, abandoned and useless. The accompanying illustration shows two figures lost in a snowy landscape, with dialogue mockingly questioning how anyone knows where they're going—likely referencing society's confused direction under Prohibition. Together, these pieces express *Judge*'s satirical frustration with Prohibition's effects on American social life and the drinking culture the magazine valued.
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Gong! IQUOR has al ways played an important part in ringing out the old and ringing in the new. And because the supply is limited some of the liquor dealers have been trying to ring in as much of the new a pos- sible And we wish our wife knew how to handle a Duc as well as she does 4 y a bridge hand. Simile: Collapsed like a lan. farm-reliet “Boy, I got you the swellest looking nurse!” Song to be Sung by a Flapper Forty Years From Now petted while id wildwe all, throw ved up the parties we fre- quently threw The old cocktail shaker’s now covered nish e bin on a junk-littered rd, vor that tasted and acted like varnish No more from its spout is ecstatic poured— | | quart model shaker, | Poor sport | Aba ned, —Arthur L. Lippmann pest of poets may be wrong! Six years ago I wrote this ] j | all of us were thirsty birds. | The song's reprinted now and here, And as I read it through I fear I'll have to eat (and drink) my “Why don't you look where you're going?” words! ALLL. “Tow the hell do 1 know where I'm going?” ] 7 | | comicbooks.com