Life, 1923-05-03 · page 5 of 40
Life — May 3, 1923 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This "Life" section contains brief satirical observations about 1920s American society: **Political/Social References:** - Boston's vote to permit skyscrapers (modernization debate) - Prohibition and friction between Directors and Stock Holders - Brooklyn restaurant keeper's confession to only sixty-five holdups (crime under Prohibition) - President Harding and the *Marion Star* newspaper (his pre-presidential role) - Chinese Mah-jongg game craze in Paris - Thornton W. Burgess's animal stories - Weather Bureau's inaccuracy **The Main Cartoon** depicts a bedroom scene with a caption: "The Father: Please hurry, Ethel. Remember you were late both times before." The illustration suggests marital intimacy with a humorous domestic urgency—likely satirizing changing sexual attitudes or courtship norms of the Jazz Age. The scattered quips collectively mock contemporary follies: modernization, crime, leisure fads, and evolving social behavior.
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OSTON has just voted to per- B mit skyscrapers, which should make it easier for the Lowells to speak to God. xe , a youngster who stays up late nights is only sowing his wild ats. xe The Prohibition Directors don't seem to be getting along very well with the Stock: Holders. ee The explanation of a Brooklyn res- taurant keeper’s confession to only seventy-five holdups is that he wasn't in business very long. +k President Harding evidently is sat- isfied with the way that fellow is running the Marion Star. The Father: “And then she says she says—" to me, With all Paris gone mad over the new Chinese game, it looks like gala days for the Mah Jonggleur of Notre Dame. ©C The lucky baby of 1923 is born with a lump of coal in its mouth. +k “How could a poet come out of Kan- sas?” inquires a contemporary, The question is: How could a poet re- main in Kansas? eK Many an Oklahoma oil well is own- ed by Lo, the rich Indian. ee The real story of Piggly Wiggly and the Bears will of course be writ- ten by Thornton W. Burgess. *e* The Weather Bureau never gets credit when it gu s right, for then everybody thinks it was a mistake. ‘ee On almost any cloudy day the sky's the limit. Mice Rarvey~ Please hurry, Ethel. Remember you were late both times before. comicbooks.com