Life, 1926-10-28 · page 15 of 36
Life — October 28, 1926 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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The top cartoon depicts a Texas clergyman posing a provocative theological question to his congregation during closing prayer, asking if anyone wishes to "express divergence from the theology I have just expounded." The satire mocks authoritarian religious leadership that demands conformity while pretending to invite dissent. The bottom illustration shows a man and woman in what appears to be a tenement or modest dwelling. The man offers the woman "a little oxyacetylene torch or a couple of electric drills" as souvenirs from "outside" to brighten her dreary living conditions. The joke satirizes poverty and the absurdity of offering working-class people industrial tools as gifts to improve their bleak circumstances—highlighting class disparities and tone-deaf charity.
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Jerome, later William Travers Je- rome. Following is a transcript of the cross-examination: Q. What did you do after Sorgossen eto you on Twenty-third Street? 1. Pardon? Q. What did you do after Sorgossen spoke to you on ‘Twenty-third Street? A, Plenty. @. Very good, Mr. Bones. And now tell me, why i# a man with a silk hat on ry Queen of Scots? hat Scots? asking“ you. 1, vegetable or mineral? al. tidy on the back of that chair? &. Cyrus W. Field? . Give up? Three spades. Q. Double three spades, At this point, counsel for the de- fense objected and the case was thrown out into a higher court, where Edny Pastelle was acquitted, ANY MEMBER OF THE CONGREGATION WHO WISHES TO EXPRESS DIVERGENCE or whatever you call it. FROM THE THEOLOGY I HAVE JUST EXPOUNDED? It was some thirty rs later that the missing second floor of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel discovered. A workman laying wagers on the sixteenth floor of the Fifth Avenue Building (erected on the site of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel) came across a floor which was neither the fif- teenth, sixteenth nor seventeenth. ce were called in and, after weeks of investigation and it was identified as the miss- ing floor of the old hotel, the floor at which the little romance of Edny Pastelle had come to such an abrupt end. How it came to be on the teenth floor of the Fifth Avenue Building nobody knows. Perhaps Max Sorgossen could tell. Fighting Words ‘AY my love is easy had, Say I'm bitten raw with pride, I am too often sad— ill behold me at your side. Say I'm neither brave nor young, touched my tongue— Still you have my heart to wear. But say my verses do not scan, And J get me another man! Dorothy Parker. ; “AND WHAT LITTLE SOUVENIR PROM THE OUTSIDE CAN I GIVE YOU TO BRIGHTEN Wwuat beautiful irregular grain YOUR HOURS IN THIS DREAR P this mahogany table has!” “WELL, LADY, HOW ABOUT A LITTLE OXYACETYLENE TORCH OR A COUPLE OF Yes, it's knotty but nice.” ELECTRIC DRILLS?” comicbooks.com