Life — November 23, 1922 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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HEN it comes to getting out of a cabinet gracefully, Hou- dini has nothing on Lloyd George. aL The bail of a bootlegger in New York was placed at $r1or1,o00. It took nearly all of his small change. A trophy has been offered to the winner of the first Inter- national Beaver Champion- ship. It will, obviously, be in the shape of a mustache cup. aL Newspaper readers are ex- pecting any day to read of a case where a woman has shot a man in mistake for a husband. LL Why are the victims of mur- der mysteries always such rotten letter writers? Well, it seems as if every President had to have one man in his cabinet to do the Daugherty work. ne A San Francisco man has failed for 304 trillion dollars. If it weren’t for the single case of the Eighteenth Amendment, we could safe- ly count that as’ the most stupendous failure in history. -L The Germans have definitely settled that Ludendorff lost When the British desire a solution of their difficulties they dissolve Par- liament. LL A New York minister who compared the Bible to the Koran has aroused aL M. Marcel, at the age of eighty, is still waving hair. Long may he wave! aL Horrific Effect of a World Made Safe for Democracy, on an Artist. The Literary Digest’s Prohibition poll showed that women voted wet, which is only natural. They didn’t know when they supported the Eighteenth Amendment that they would have to make the home brew. —L “Day by day in every way,” mused the slice of restaurant toast on its third consecutive trip from kitchen to table, “T am getting butter and but- ter.” -L The age is weary of psycho- analysis and sex in literature. Nowadays, even the book worm will turn. -L Will H. Hays says that the movie industry has “no more business in partisan poli- tics than the steel industry or the railroad industry.” Someone ought to tell the steel and railroad magnates about this. In the vote as to whether the skirts should be long or short the eyes seem to have lost. LL With the end of the football season only about one ticket speculator away, the average fellow can begin to think about financing Christmas. —L If the country gets much wetter under Prohibition, his- torians are likely to credit Mr. Volstead with the re- mark, “After me the deluge.” the war. But the prospects for deciding who won it are as re- mote as ever. aL In regard to a slogan for the pre- vention of robbery, how about, “Hold ’em Yale”? LL Russia demands the recognition of open straits. It’s just like those Bol- sheviki—they’ll_ | want _ bob-tailed flushes legitimized, next. IL Last year, twenty Mystery Plays were written right off The Bat. a storm of criticism in Philadelphia. Doubtless it is felt that some men- tion should have been made of the Saturday Evening Post. LL In 1914 a “scrap of paper” meant nothing to Germany, yet in 1922 she is hurt because the world refuses to accept her mark notes as anything else. * L Some people go insane from over- work and others try to invent new color combinations for taxicabs. —L Give a wise man enough rope and he'll go after Will Rogers’ record. LL President Harding, of course, has to issue a Thanksgiving proclamation this year, but a number of his most loyal supporters are asking, queru- lously, “For what?” LL Affairs have quieted down percep- tibly in the well-known Emerald Isle. The little bit of Heaven is at last accumulating a little bit of sense. comicbooks.com