Life, 1927-04-28 · page 10 of 35
Life — April 28, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two satirical pieces mocking early 20th-century scientific pretension and business culture. **Left cartoon**: "The Misguided Security Salesman Who Tried to Sell a Doctor Some Stock in an Apple Corporation" depicts a chaotic laboratory where a salesman has been literally thrown around by an angry scientist-doctor. The cartoon ridicules fraudulent stock salesmen preying on professionals through false "scientific" investment schemes. **Right section**: "Just Between Us Girls" is a gossip column in exaggerated typography, mocking women's magazine rhetoric. The author (Lloyd Mager) satirizes pseudo-scientific claims—particularly about universities conducting dubious kiss-testing and necking experiments—as absurd modern trends. The humor targets both sensationalized science journalism and women's breathless fascination with relationship pseudo-science. Both pieces lampoon the era's gullibility toward fake science and get-rich-quick schemes.
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First Workman: Looks LIKE THEY WAS HAVING AN EARTHQUAKE DOWN THERE. Table, Based on Magazine Ads., Showing What Caused the Failures of One Hundred Business Men NFERIORITY Complex.......... Halitosis Lack of Yeast Cake: Coffee Drinking : Lack of Correspondence Schooling. . . Business Inability Tota as Y dear, I'm all hot and BOTHered—I mean I'm simply LIVid because did you SEE that simply TERrifying thing in the PApers about NECKing? | mean it says that these odd SClIentist people have de- CIDed that a KISS shortens human LIFE three MIN- utes or something—can you BEAR it, I mean did you EVer hear of anything so s POTsorous and GHASTly? Well, you see, these SClentists or psychiOLogists or something at some odd uniV y out WEST somewheres have been exPERimenting with oscuLAtion because this uniVERsity place is iDEAL for experimenting with CKing because it is one of those VILE co-ED places where practicably is to NECK all the entire TIME, but dear, when they got to making these TES covered that a KISS causes such palpiTAtion of the HEART that the extra BEATS amount to the number which your heart would beat NORmally in three MINutes if you did not NECK! ACtually, my dear, I think it is TOO dePRESSing, don't you really think it IS? But I mean it is prob'ly just a lot of TRIPE because I mean it is prob'ly just a lot of POIsonous propaGANda or something, but ANYways, my dear, what is three MINutes in your life NOWadays compared with a little light SMACKing? But it simply SLAYS me, no less, to think of what they must have had to DO to make these obnoxious ex- PERiments because I mean they must have had this BOY and GIRL sitting in this odd LABoratory and NECKing for LITerally HOURS while these psychiOLogists sort of FIRMLY held STETHoscopes to their HEARTS—can you BEAR it, my dear?—but I bet they ACtually DID!" Lloyd Mayer. Psalm of Picnic Life MPTY sardine tins remind 5, THE MISGUIDED SECURITY SALESMAN WHO TRIED TO SELL A DOCTOR SOME STOCK IN AN APPLE CORPORATION. As we reach a spot sublime, That the party that pre-dined us Had a simply gorge-us time! comicbooks.com a Sayer” TP, Y