Life, 1922-11-09 · page 30 of 36
Life — November 9, 1922 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, featuring prominent shoe and product ads (W.L. Douglas shoes, Burrowes billiard tables, American Express cruises). The satirical content appears in the middle section titled **"Our Foolish Contemporaries,"** reprinting a brief humorous story called "The Usual Procedure." It mocks the pretensions of a man named William Doubleday who, when confronted by a debt collector during breakfast at his club, uses etiquette as a defense—lecturing the collector about "decent society" rules forbidding business discussions at mealtimes. The joke satirizes how the wealthy weaponize social conventions to avoid accountability for debts. The remaining text includes miscellaneous humor pieces ("The Dividing Line," "Hollow Triumph") and advertisements for theosophical services and commercial art schools. This appears to be a typical 1920s Life page: **mostly commercial with light satirical interludes** poking fun at social affectation and financial evasion.
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OUR FOOLISH CONTEMPORARIES lf a The Usual Procedure Wiutam Dovustex is noted for his nerve, his shortness of temper, and his scarcity of cash. While he was seated at a lonely breakfast in his club one morning, a debt collector broke in, through the drowsiness of the porter at the door, and presented his bill. “Sir,” said William, glaring at him, “Gs this all you know of the usages of decent society? To present a bill to a man breakfasting, sir? Do you know that you are an intruder in this club, sir? Do you know I could call the ser- vants and have you thrown out? If you wish to talk business, go outside and send in your card.” The collector went out and sent in his card. William picked it up be- tween thumb and forefinger, adjusted his monocle, and read it. “Tell the gentleman,” he sai ly, “that I am not in.” —Tit-Bits More Self-Determination A Dutch scientist has discovered the existence in the heavens of a_body twenty thousand million times larger than the sun. 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