Life, 1919-03-27 · page 32 of 44
Life — March 27, 1919 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **two distinct satirical pieces** plus advertising: ## "A Great Difference" A brief joke contrasting a physician's bedside manner. A doctor efficiently dismisses a patient with a prescription, but when the patient thanks him for kindly remembering his father Colonel Blank, the doctor suddenly becomes warm and chatty—revealing his politeness depends entirely on the patient's social status, not medical concern. ## "Looked Suspicious" A train emergency sequence mocking prejudice. After an accident, a conductor becomes suspicious of a passenger pulled from the wreckage, assuming he sabotaged the train. Mrs. Crosslots then jokes that her husband John couldn't be a Bolshevik (communist) because he hates fire—a satirical jab at 1920s anti-communist hysteria, where any accident or disruption was reflexively blamed on radical agitators. ## Advertisement The page concludes with an advertisement for a Locomobile automobile, a luxury vehicle. The humor targets class snobbery and the era's paranoid anti-communist sentiment.
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