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Life — November 25, 1920 — page 40: Life, 1920-11-25

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This page mixes advertisements with editorial content announcing upcoming Scribner's Magazine features. The main satirical content appears in the brief humor section titled "Frightfulness": A Boston boy thanks a German woman in German, causing his New York mother to react with horror—calling it "horrible." The joke satirizes post-WWI American attitudes toward Germany. "Frightfulness" (*Schrecklichkeit*) was a specific propaganda term used during WWI to describe alleged German brutality. The boy's mother finds even polite German speech disturbing, reflecting the anti-German sentiment prevalent in American culture immediately after the war. The second joke about John and Mary's engagement plays on the frustration of golf lessons—a common domestic comedy theme of the era. The advertisements (Piso's cough medicine, Evans Beverages, The Biltmore Hotel) represent typical period marketing. The page primarily announces Scribner's Magazine upcoming serialization of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson's memoir about her brother Theodore Roosevelt, plus other features and contributors.

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Be prepared to drive off enemies to your health by keeping Piso’s handy on your shelf always ready for instant aid, to ward off coughs and colds and pro- tect both young and old from more serious illness. It contains no opiate. Buy Piso’s today. 3S¢ at your druggist’s PIS or Coughs & The BILT MORE | Where the social life of New York centers by day and evening CLOSE ‘TO ALL THEATRES AND SHOPS Every Man Likes a Good Drink Every Good Drinker Likes HREGIA, Brimful of Try it at Club, Hotel or Restaurant SUPPLIED IN CASES KY LEADING DEALERS: C. H. EVANS & SONS Fatah 1788 HUDSON, N.¥. = -LIFE.- Fnghtfulness OSTON BOY: I thanked Mrs. Back- bay in German, mother. New York Motner: Why, Waldo, how horrible! Boston Boy: You know you told me to say “ Thanks awfully.” Well, that’s the awfullest way I knew. “ARE John and Mary engaged?” No—not since Mary started giv- ing him lessons in golf.” ALL DUNHILL PIPES BEAR THIF, ROUND, WHITE SPOT AND ARE STAMPED NH LONDON M.M. Importing Co. 6 East 45th St. N.Y. SOLE AGENTS IN THE U. S. BY CORINN brother from nursery da MAJOR E. ALEXANDER POWELL “ADVENTURING AFTER AD- VENTURE” Major Powell, who has been in every war for the last twenty years as cor- respondent or as officer, and in times of peace has travelled in many strange countries, recently returned from a “Motion-Picture Expedition in Malaysia.” His narrative has all the variety of scene and the supply of odd characters and situations that make the charm of a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan or George Ade. The narrative will be fully illustrated with pictures made from the films. THE WIRELESS WORLD A new world of the air has de- veloped. It has its own social side and its personal code. The men who are talking through the air are a class apart, and W. G. Shepherd, who describes it, is familiar with this interesting development, made more interesting by the recent talk around the world from the great wire- less tower started by the Americans at Bordeaux. |SHORT STORIES—TIMELY ARTICLES will be contributed next year by such famousauthorsas : BRANDER MATTHEWS, ALEXANDER DANA NOYES ERNEST C. PEIXOTTO KATHARINE FP, GEROULD CARTER GOODLOE THOMAS NELSON LOUIS DODGE WWENRY VAN DYKE MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT MARY R. S. ANDREWS. HARRIET WELLES MARY SYNON PAUL VAN DYKE F. SCOTT FITZGERALD PAGE and a host of others. My Brother THEODORE ROOSEVELT ° ROOSEVELT ROBINSON THE SISTER OF COLONEL ROosEVELT has spoken scores of times, particularly before young children, about her brother and his views on the right kind of good Americans. Now |she has set down the intimate personal recollections of her until he became the leading citizen of the world. ‘‘I want to write my own recollec- tions of him,’’ says Mrs. Robinson, ‘‘our talks together all his life, out sonal letters. My view of him in the book is rue GREAT SHARER, givin life and the best that was in him to his family, his friends, and the cour! This remarkable narrative will run through ScRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, beginning in the January nom! MAKING A FRENCHO SITY OUT OF A GERMAY VERSITY Professor Ch of Colum the next a mn versity of ing on American History. He will descrite faculty of two hundred men has been built bourg from Frenchraen; the great Germs has, of course, entirely disappeared les Downer Jniversity, wifes PSYCHOLOGY GOLDEEL Henry Foster Adams, at the Psychological L University of Michigas, tri ‘group of artided “Psychology Goldbricks. hey are a criticisa} gical grounds of memory systems, 5 ning the will, character analysis, and Wed “applied psychology.” They tel and impartially the strong and weak poists) systems discussed. ey FILL OUT THE COUPON ni while you are looking at it; mail it to-day. De the 7sthanni f ‘ Citantes Scrtexee's Sons, s97 Fifth Avenue Please start my subscriptic at once, When your bill com New York City to scernncr’s Name Address } City. Mail this r