Life, 1922-09-14 · page 14 of 40
Life — September 14, 1922 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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The central illustration depicts a caricatured man in a wide-brimmed hat examining what appears to be currency or documents. The caption reads: "A foul blow broke up the prize fight over at Strawberry Center last Wednesday night. Abe Cooley vows it must 'a' bim a cock fight." This appears to be rural/frontier humor playing on class and sophistication differences. The joke suggests that someone named Abe Cooley witnessed such brutal fighting at a local event that he can't believe it was human combat—implying it was so vicious it resembled cockfighting instead. The cartoon mocks both the violence of backwoods prize fighting and the vernacular speech ("bim" for "been") of rural Americans unfamiliar with formal boxing.
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a ae and be merry—for to-mor- row both may be unconstitu- tional. aL By the time the last of the McCor- micks gets married it will be time for the first again. JL One-piece bathing suits are very common. this summer. According to the beach censors, they always have been. JL Nine moving pictures out of ten may be said to go in one eye and out the other. JL Hearst's announcement that he would not be a candidate was the most accurate scoop the Hearst papers have had in years. Time, which softens all our sorrows, must also be credited with produc- ing the hard-boiled egg. JL The trail of the red Her- rin has been drawn across Illinois. aL It's a good thing the crops didn’t go out on strike. aL If we were a Russian we had rather work for nothing than have to lug our wages home. The chief obstacle to cheerfulness is the person who always preaches it. LL Several large business houses have announced that they will discharge any girl who smokes cig- arettes. In other words, where there’s smoke there's fire. aL A landlord is without honor even in his own building. We pointed out some time ago that Henry Ford should be a strong can- didate with the Junkers. A correspondent suggests that he will also gain great support from the cranks. To judge from the pictures of movie stars, the face with the teeth wins, aL Only a very low sort of person would be mean enough to refer to the evap- orated milk of human kindness aL Old Bill Nickel A foul blow broke up the prize fight over at Strawberry Center last Wednesday night. Abe Cooley vows it must IL ’a bin a cock fight. Theodore Roosevelt's friends assert that he never used profanity. It is also true that Theodore Roosevelt never played golf. “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.” This explains why Mayor Hylan probably will not build any more schools. aL News that a new gey: is erupting in Ycllow- stone Park falls pretty flat on the eve of a Con- gressional election. aL According to a newspa- per, stockings were in- vented in the eleventh century. And they were not seen until the twentieth. aL The Bank of England is to be enlarged. Is it possible that the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street was stuck with a lot of marks and rubles? JL Girls Bid for Husbands. —New York Times. The bid naturally being “one without.” JL A man is as young as he feels—until he buys a toupee. A prominent divine says that jazz is killing the cultural andr ous soul of America. Slay it with music! To our flag the Shipping Board has added the bar sinister. Or, if you want to look at it that way, the Constitution follows the flagon. comicbooks.com