Judge, 1936-01 · page 11 of 36
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# New Year's Greetings, Judge Magazine This is a humorous New Year's editorial from Judge magazine offering mock curses on various annoying social types. The page contains two cartoons illustrating specific grievances. The top cartoon ("What's this, mutiny?") depicts a judge figure confronting two fighting men, likely satirizing workplace or social conflict. The bottom cartoon shows a waiter or servant juggling plates while managing demanding customers at what appears to be a restaurant or nightclub, captioned about an old school teacher wanting an autograph. The accompanying verse catalogs irritating people the author wishes a miserable year: boring conversationalists, loud theater patrons, cigarette salesmen, tea room owners, taxi drivers, and Class of 1914 alumni who pressure people into attending smokers. The satire targets pretentious social behavior, aggressive salesmanship, and the general annoyances of urban life—issues apparently as vexing to 1920s readers as today.
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Judge “What's this, mutiny?” New Year's Greeti igs \ Disstat New Year 0 7 ELL-meaning bores who try to pin me down on their friends when out To callin’ of town: The host who tunes-in on a blaring station And then insists on making conversa- tion; Th zealous lips old blocks from whose over- Come mile-long anecdotes about their quips. To these, and others equally as drear, I wish a grim, and wholly wretched yea \ Dovorovus New Year To {E oafs who sit behind me at the play ating every word the actors say: tippler and his jewelled and ermined mate Who stumble down the aisle a half- hour late; > ring-tailed gent, with soft, off- center brain, Who ogle at my paper on the train: The man who, when I'm cigarettes, hooks in sets A doub lunat pox on all these A Drsouate HE owners of all tea pseudo-swank, Where rank; turns green; Those sophomoric, Class oi "14 croakers, Who try to drag me to alumni smokers; maybe worse, in verse I wish an insupportable year! “Your old school teacher wants to autograph your fan!” 9 buying | | Plugs razor blades, knives, soap and | And may they have a lousy New Yrar to osphere is great and menu | | The taxi-driver of the wolfish mien | Who honks his horn before the light | To hundreds just as bad. Including those who air their ills severe, Exasperating, trouble-haunted "36! and comicbooks.com