Life — November 10, 1921 — page 11: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Explanation for Modern Readers The top cartoon, "A Little Match After Lunch," depicts two golfers. One asks the other to "put your club in the hole and keep it still while I putt"—the humor relies on the double meaning of "hole," playing on the golf term while suggesting something crude. The cartoonist is A.B. Frost, a recognized illustrator of the era. Below, "The Letters of Alicia" by Robert Barnes Rudd presents correspondence addressing social life on New York's West Side. The letter discusses "charming" people living in that area and mentions Columbia University nearby, touching on class and cultural attitudes of the upper-middle-class readership Life targeted. The "Retained" and "The Alibi" sections are brief satirical snippets about social pretense and political excuses.