Life, 1923-09-20 · page 28 of 36
Life — September 20, 1923 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several brief humorous items typical of Life's satirical style: **"A Young Archaist"** mocks a child who enjoyed costume-period theatrical language ("tushery talk"), using the phrase "tussleth of war" to show her attempting archaic speech without understanding it. **"Nasty"** is a brief exchange between a comedian and stage manager, joking that audience members aren't accustomed to the comedian's act—implying it's so bad they don't recognize when to laugh. **"Fortunes of War"** references a wartime officer who would have remained a colonel had the war not occurred, suggesting wartime promotions elevated mediocre men to general rank. **"It Reaches Hawaii"** and **"Malapropos"** are collected jokes in various languages/dialects about bananas and shipping terminology, playing on Hawaiian Pidgin English and accents. The page is primarily **advertising** for Brooks Brothers clothing, dominating the lower half.
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It Reaches Hawaii On Johnson's bus the proverb goes: Yes, we no got any bananoes ; In Tin Can Alley, dive or den: A Young Archaist Ssss! banana ari mas’ en. The small girl had found a story of Beside Kilauea’s tropic fire: the costume period, full of “tushery” [ talk. She evidently liked the language, though she didn’t quite understand it. : 7 On Punchbowl’s slopes the waving ban “Nay, let us have a tussleth of war on 7 ners the landing,” she was overheard saying 3 y Proclaim: Sim, nao se tem bananas. fo her little brother. —London Daily News. de, aole a makou maia; And where Nuuanu seeks the sea You'll hear: Ngaw ti mow chu chee, In Kaimuki, as like as not: Yes! Bananas no have goat; Nasty InpiGNant Comeptan: Look ’ere, | objects to going on just after this P Be Or from the docks to old Roundtop: monkey act. : ‘ I tink banana she no stop. Stace Manacer: Why, laddie? Are ; f —Honolulu Star-Bulletin you afraid they'll think you're an en- = : core?—Weekly Telegraph (London). <a . Malapropos _ 8 YacuTsMAN : If this squall continues, “Tue people in the audience didn't a I shall heave to. seem to laugh much at your jokes.” FORTUNES OF WAR Passencer (wanly): What a horrid “No. I guess they’re not used to them yet.”—Youngstown Telegram. “AND HE IS ONLY A COLONEL?” way to put it—Bystander (London) “YES, BUT IF THE WAR HAD NOT COME ALONG HE WOULD HAVE BEEN A “I Hate other people’s burdens.” Tue happiest man on earth never GENERAL BY Now.” “I can’t bear them, either.” knows it—Richmond Times-Dispatch. —Le Rire (Paris). —New York Sun and Globe. Lire. is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, The foreign trade supplied from Lire’s London. Office, Roll: Great Britain, Canada and British Possessions, . Title registered in U.S. Buildings, London, E. C.. Canadian. distrib Patent. Office. $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage to foreign | News Company, Ltd., 386-388 St. James Street, Mont countries in the Postal Union, $1.60 a year; to Canada, 80 cents, Back song will be riturned “unless accompanied by’ stom numbers cannot be supplied. addressed envelope. Lire does not hold itself responsible for the The text and illustrations in Lire are copyrighted. Por Reprint Rights "on-return of unsolicited contributions. in Great Britain apply to Lire, Rolls House, Breams Buildings, Fetter Notice of change of address should reach this office two Lane, London, E. C., England, to the date of issue to be affected. ESTABLISHED 1818 >CLOTHINGS Gentlemens Furnishing Goods, MADISON AVENUE COR. FORTY-FOURTH STREET NEW YORK Telephone Murray Hill 8800 Clothing Ready made or to Measure for Autumn Evening Clothes, Cutaways, Sack Suits Sporting Clothes and Medium-weight Overcoats English and Domestic Hats and Furnishings Boots and Shoes for Dress, Street and BROOKS BROTHERS’ Outdoor Sport epeas : Building, convenient Trunks, Bags and Leather Goods col@rand Ceateal, Subaay: Send for “Clothes and the Hour” and to many of the leading BOSTON. NEWPORT | Hotels and Clubs TREMONT Cor. BOYLSTON 220 BELLEVUE AVENUE comicbooks.com