Life, 1921-10-27 · page 11 of 34
Life — October 27, 1921 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains educational puzzle and word-game content rather than political cartoons. **Section IV (Picture Completion)** presents six simple line drawings with missing elements—a cat without a birdcage, a person without furniture, a dining scene—that readers must identify what's absent from each scene. **Section V (Poetic Discrimination)** asks readers to evaluate three versions of onomatopoeia ("Bang! Pssss— Bang!") and rank them as best, middle, or poorest poetry. **Section VI (Range of Information)** is a vocabulary exercise where readers identify which underlined word makes each sentence true, testing knowledge of obscure terms like "gastrocnemius" (a leg muscle) and "madrigal" (a type of song). These are recreational puzzles for readers, not satirical commentary.
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October 27 IV. Picture Completion No prepare to concentrate upon the half-dozen pic- tures below. In each picture there is something missing. See if you can discover whatever it can possibly be that is absent, V. - Poetic Discrimination EAD each version carefully and try to think how it would sound if it were read aloud. Which version, do you think, is the poorest poetry, and which is the best poetry? Best ...++ Middle Poorest .. Version X: Bang! Fsss-ssss— Bang! Oh! Oh! You... you.. Boom! Boom! Oh-h-h! -P youl! Version Y: Oh! Oh! Oh-h-h! You ... Fsss-ssss— Bang! You ...? (Bang!) you!! Boom! Boom! Version Z: Boom! Boom! Bang! Fsss-ssss— Bang! Oh! Oh! Oh-h-h! You... you...? youl! inexistent, wanting, omitted, not there, or nowhere to be found. Take a good look—if you've got a good look to take. Any little boy or girl under 97 years of age caught crib- bing will be thrown into the Grand Cafion of Arizona. VI. Range of Information N each of the sentences below, draw a line under the word that makes the truest sentence. sure, guess. The “Moonlight Sonata” is played with rackets, pins, cards, dice. . Mary Pickford is a famous racehorse, vampire, breakfast food, steamboat. meas Chimneys are used in lacrosse, vocal culture, manicuring, religion. —_ The gastrocnemius is found in India, Hawaii, Cochin China, Illinois. . Annette Kellerman appears in “Jurgen,” “Les Miserables,” “Richard III,” “Ivanhoe.” “Cheese it” is a term used in heraldry, billiards, fox hunt- ing, architecture. Fur is obtained from mines, quarries, elephants, bamboo trees. The number of feet on a twelve-inch rule is three, five, seven, nine, Asbestos is the capital of Greece, Armenia, Caucasia, Korea. In his own country a prophet is without whiskers, alcohol, press agents, temptation. A madrigal is a sort of bird, mechanical toy, trolley car, Swedish pastry. If you cannot be comicbooks.com