Life, 1922-10-12 · page 15 of 36
Life — October 12, 1922 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains two distinct sections: **Top Section**: "Journalistic Portraits" offers satirical character sketches. A U.S. Senator is mocked as a corrupt defender of special interests over constitutional principles. A "Favorite Picture Star" is portrayed as a spoiled, lazy woman who spends her day in bed, breakfast in her luxurious kitchen, then plays polo and swims—born in 1888, making her nineteen years old. The satire targets wealthy idleness and privilege. **Bottom Section**: An illustration captioned "Little Binks, Whose Vacation Begins Next Week, Has an Alluring but Alarming Dream" depicts a child's anxiety dream about holiday freedom—featuring fantastical creatures and chaotic adventure. The cartoon humorously captures the contradictory emotions children experience about upcoming vacations: excitement mixed with nervous apprehension.
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LIFE Journalistic Portraits Figures as You Know Them After Reading a Grist of Daily Papers Your Unitep States Senator: A stanch, fearless advocate of the people’s rights, he is a craven, abject tool of the interests, the holder of a purchased seat and the honored object of the suffrages of free citizens. He reveres, interprets and defends the Constitution and would not hesitate to tear it to pieces. An example of idealism and altruism, he does everything from a selfish motive. He is thoroughly corrupt and one of the noblest men who ever breathed. * * * Your Favorite Picture Star: She is a spoiled, lazy creature who spends the day in bed and rises at six o'clock in the morning to prepare her own breakfast in her personal, diamond-studded kitchen that she carries with her wherever she goes. She is a lover of domestic peace and. tranquillity and has been married six times. re has an angelic disposition and flies into a rage at the slightest provocation. She is athletic, often playing polo in her swimming suit, and seldom goes out of doors ex- cept on business. She was born in 1888 and is nineteen years old. McC. H. SK Questions on Elementary Physics Who invented the (a) steam engine? (b) steam beer? (c) steam room? (d) steam piano? Is the law of inertia constitutional ? Two automobiles traveling at the same speed meet at right angles. What is the force and direction of the re- sultant flow of profanity? What is distillation? A siphon? Name their principal domestic use. Where was the building inspector when the Tower of Pisa began to lean? Where would the science of physics be now if Galileo had been one of those people who “can’t stand heights’? What by-law of the indestructibility of matter covers safety razor blades and victrola needles? What is the theory of a vacuum? Is there anything in it? What causes sovnd waves? (b) permanent waves? When Archimedes discovered the principle of the lever he is said to have jumped from his bath shouting “Eu- reka!” What night was it? Is the foot-pound a measure of pressure or policemen? Little Binks, Whose Vacation Begins Next Week, Has an Alluring but Alarming Dream. comicbooks.com