Life, 1924-05-01 · page 12 of 40
Life — May 1, 1924 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains several short satirical "Life Lines" items and one cartoon. **The Cartoon:** The bottom illustration depicts a grocer and a well-dressed woman (the Professor's Wife) at a shop counter. She asks the price of eggs ("ONE-TWENTY-FIVE"), then incredulously replies "HEN OR DINOSAUR?" — suggesting eggs have become absurdly expensive, so costly they seem impossibly overpriced. **Context:** This appears to reference post-World War I inflation and food-price concerns in America. The joke equates current egg prices to prehistoric levels of absurdity — implying profiteering or economic dysfunction that makes basic commodities unaffordable for ordinary consumers. **Life Lines:** The brief items mock contemporary figures (Harry Daugherty, MacKenzie King) and social trends, including radio broadcasting and animal breeding experiments — typical satirical commentary on news and society of the period.
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