Life, 1925-08-27 · page 8 of 36
Life — August 27, 1925 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains a domestic cartoon captioned "Wife: don't you love to watch the sunset? Husband: what's it doing now?" The humor satirizes marital disconnection—the husband ignores romantic moments, presumably absorbed in newspapers or other distractions. The surrounding "Life Lines" column offers social commentary on contemporary issues: - **Jack Dempsey** (boxer): A Berlin monument is being erected to honor his WWI service - **Oxford bags** fashion trend: Described as a "terrible flop" - **Prohibition Commissioner Haynes**: Criticized as needing to be "stripped of all his powers" - **William Beebe** (naturalist): Mocked for claiming no "Sargasso Sea" exists - **Liquid coal**: German chemical innovation that American bootleggers allegedly want to steal The page satirizes 1920s American politics, fashion, and social hypocrisy around Prohibition.
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UMMER-—like the majority of those who undertake to swim the English Channel—is almost over. A bust of Jack Demrsty is to be erected in Berlin, For distinguished services during the war, probably. “Fighting is Jack's business,” says Mrs. Dempsey, who really ought to be more careful about letting out these family seercts. LL Frank D, Waterman, the fountain pen manufacturer, is the Republican Husband: wuat's 1T pornc Now? candidate for Mayor of New York, His campaign, we imagine, will be based on a plea for more and longer dotted lines. JL In support of the ancient and hopeful belief that common sense will always triumph in the long run comes word from England announcing that Oxford bags will not be worn this scason, JL At least the wearers of those Oxford bags must admit they’re a terrible flop Prohibi der the new régime, will retain office, but is to be “stripped of all his powers.” They must be grooming him for the Vice-Presidency. aL An Asbury Park woman, secking ali- mony, says she has been obliged to drive a beer truck to support herselé and her children. But why any one who drives a beer truck should need alimony is one of those mysteries. JL The trusting faith of childhood receives a stunning shock from the cold-blooded statement of Witiiam Beene that “there isn’t any Sargasso Sea.” -L President Cuurcn of the Carnegie In- stitute thinks we should “choose our Senators and other legislators with the same care that we choose our stenog- raphers.” A good idea, only there is practically no fun in taking a Senator out to lunch. LL A German chemist is said to have in- vented a process for making liquid coal. American bootleggers are protesting that he stole the secret from them. L People will burn liquid coal, we suspect, not so much for the heat as for the humidity. JL Mr. Coottncr has let it be known that he does not think very highly of the news dispatches sent out from Swamp- scott, which would seem to make it, as the saying goes, practically unanimous. comicbooks.com