Life, 1926-12-23 · page 5 of 37
Life — December 23, 1926 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical pieces from an early 20th-century Life magazine issue. **"Tin Plate" Carson Jr. cartoon**: Shows a child requesting roller skates for Christmas. The caption identifies him as the son of a famous gunman, satirizing the celebrity offspring of notorious figures through contrast—a violent man's child wanting innocent toys. **"A Grammatical Kiss"**: A humorous essay treating a kiss as a grammatical object, playing on wordplay and double meanings typical of Life's intellectual humor. **Other items**: Include news briefs mocking Prohibition's enforcement costs, Detroit's new skyscraper, and military recruitment. The "For God My Country and For Yale" cartoon appears to satirize patriotic excess or class-based military service attitudes. The page reflects post-WWI American society's social attitudes and contemporary concerns.
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“TIN PLATE” CARSON, JR., THE FAMOUS GUNMAN’S SON, PREPARES FOR CHRISTMAS. A Grammatical Kiss KISS is always a pronoun, because “she’’ stands for i It is masculine and feminine gender mixed; therefore, common. It is a conjunction because it connects. It is an interjection; at least, it sounds like one. It is plural because one calls for another. It is singular because there is nothing else like it. It is usually in apposition with a caress; at any rate, it is sure to follow. A kiss can be conjugated, but never declined. It is a preposition because it gov- erns an objective “case. However, it is not an adverb, be- cause it cannot be compared, but it is a phrase that expresses feeling. AW. News AY: So ya had a letter from that college boy ? Trss: Yeh, he wrote an’ ast me did IT get home all right from the dance he took me to. i "THE one who thinks the Prohibi- tion Law is a big joke should take a look at next year's thirty-three- million-dollar Prohibition pay-roll. Liffve THE bones of a woman presumably a million years old have been found in Asia. But you'll never get her to admit she is a day over a hundred thousand. JL A motto for motorists: “Pedestrians should be seen and not hurt.” a 5 The Filipinos, it is announced, will be ready for self- government by 1948, and at that rate the United States will have to hurry to keep up with them. = & By the time the Filipinos are set for self-government, the United States should be in a position to offer them several obsolete battleships and a limited number of slightly used Constitutional amendments. JL Detroit's new eighty-five-story skyscraper will be known as the Book Building. It is expected to have sufficient capacity to accommodate the collected works of H. G. We tts. iL “MEN for crack ‘ional Guard regiment; no interference with business; equipment free; pay for all drills, Opportunity to take the entrance exam. for West Point. No objection to ex-German soldiers. Write for particulars. —Want ad. in New York Graphic. The War is over! LL History will doubtless record the y: treasurership as the period when t heavily cut. rs of Mr. Metion’s s and Scotch were JL Snappy suggestion for night club radio announcer: “Well, folks, it looks like a White Christmas and a Black Bottom.” Yes, Why? “| MATE JAZZ, ESPECIALLY THE BANJO.” “WHY PICK ON THE BANJO?” comicbooks.com