Life — November 16, 1922 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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R, Lloyd George is out at last! Well—if time hangs heavy on his hands, there is a good oppor- tunity over here for a young man who wishes to make good as Attor- ney Gefieral. Uneasy lies the crown that hasn’t lost its head. aL The middle man is the reason the rest of us can’t make both ends Henry evidently intends to lower the price of his cars until even a writer of Ford jokes may own one. LL Shaving-brushes at £8:10 each are Mr. Daugherty apparently found a precedent in Exo- dus XV. 21: “And Moses: stretched out his hand. . .and made the sea dry.” “They shall not pass” is now Harvard’s slogan for the Committee on Entrance Re- quirements. JL Pretty soon a mark will be worth a rouble, and Germany and Russia can resume com- mercial relations. aL Lloyd George must be given credit for one thing—he settled the Irish question oftener than any other prime minister. aL The disappearance of ice cream pie can only mean there’s been an increase of cake-eaters aL Rodolph Valentino has gone on strike because his salary is only $1500 a week. What won't the laboring Hiram Johnson IRAM, Hiram, I've been thinking, Since your late successful test, classes do next! At this fact there is no blinking: You're the Symbol of the West. aL A Gotham schoolboy who Though I've never seen a redwood foiled a burglar by grabbing Reaching up to heaven's blue, his beard is wondering how I am sure its lofty head would much it would have counted if he had been playing Bea- ver. aL When England gets this game of Beaver properly developed the United States will send Still be over-topped by you. ~ Hiram, Hiram, I've no doubt you Truly represent your State. California, without you Somehow could not be as great. over a team to win the As the surf upon her beaches, championship. aL We ought to be proficient at it. We have been practicing on the Smith Brothers for years and years. Bursting on the sandy shore, Is the thunder of your speeches, Though the surf, no doubt, means more. GSC. a luxury to be bought in the West End of London. —News Item, That’s rubbing it in. LL Having made the United States dry on land and sea, the Anti-Saloon League will now conduct a drive on the humidity in the air. aL One hundred per cent. Ameri- canism is no longer strong enough to re-elect politicians, but 99-44/100ths per cent. soft soap is still doing the trick. JL The Administration’s foreign policy: Hands Off Across the Sea. JL What Europe evidently thinks our foreign policy ought to be: Handouts Across the Sea. LL A novel item, says an Eng- lish contemporary, is having your eyelashes permanently dyed. And in the case of the flapper, it might be added, your brain permanently dead. JL Congress would be a better institution if it indulged in more ‘frankness and _ less franking. JL A congressman is a man who runs for office so that if elected he will have a job which will pay him sufficient salary to enable him to devote all his time to getting elected again. aL Motto for farmers: Weed ’em and reap. comicbooks.com