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Life — January 6, 1921 — page 40: Life, 1921-01-06

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This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** rather than political cartoons, though it contains one relevant cultural reference. The notable editorial content is a brief discussion of **linguistic "back-formations"** — words created by removing suffixes from existing words. The example given is the newly-coined verb "to sculp" (from "sculptor"), which the author notes appeared surprisingly in a prominent New York newspaper headline. The connection: this relates to a **British sculptress, Mrs. Clare Sheridan**, who recently traveled to Russia to create portrait busts of **Lenin and Trotsky**. The "stark caption" referenced mentions "Trotsky Revealed By Woman Artist Who Sculped Him" — this being newsworthy because Sheridan had access to Soviet leaders during a period of intense anti-Bolshevik sentiment in the West. The remainder of the page consists of vintage **beauty and medicinal product advertisements** (Mum deodorant, Evans's Depilatory, Bellans indigestion remedy, Piso's cough syrup), typical of 1920s commercial content, plus a racial-dialect humor piece unrelated to current events.

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