Life, 1927-06-23 · page 16 of 38
Life — June 23, 1927 — page 16: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three humor pieces typical of 1920s Life magazine: **"Just Between Us Girls"** (top): A satirical monologue by Lloyd Mayer mocking the "LIDo LID" fashion—likely a cloche hat or close-fitting women's hat style. The speaker sarcastically praises how this trend supposedly demonstrates women's "great achievement in America" by making them indistinguishable and trivializing their accomplishments. **"Nothing Under the Plate"** (bottom left): A brief joke about a man's son being "in a tight place" because he's "a waiter in Edinburgh"—a pun on financial or social constraint. **Untitled cartoon** (bottom right): Shows two men, one explaining his wife's illness to a friend, who quips it's "darn nice of her" to be bedridden—dark humor about inconvenience masquerading as sympathy. The page reflects 1920s social commentary on fashion, class, and domestic life.
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“Hodestly, my dear, I’m so MAD at this point I could ACtually gargle BUTtermilk because HAVE you heard about this perfectly BILious iDEA of wearing these ‘LINdy LIDS, which some FOUL. MILliner has thought UP because of all this exCI ment about L.INdenbergh? Because I mean the MIN- ute anybody who is an AMERican does anything MAR- velous like whatever it was thi Ndenbergh did, some- body alv has to comMERe ACtu- ally think is POSitively perVERTed because I mean the MINute you comMERe any simply MAR- velous thing like this perfectly SWEET LINdenbergh boy did it just sort of takes aWAY from the HONor of it, sort of, don’t you really think it DOES, my dear? Well, ANYways, I am SIMply L1IVid about it—I mean I ACtu AM, because I honestly think that we practicably have no respect for Y- thing in AMERica because we have no iDEALS or anything because we just sort of WORship the DOLlar, do you know what I mean? WELL, my dear, this ‘LINdy LID’ effect is of gray FELT, trimmed with black LEATHer and, you sce, these sort of FLAP effects on the SIDES are made to LOOK like the wings of a PLANE and there is this felt ap- pliquéd piece in FRONT which is made to look like a proPELler—I it’s TERribly CHIC, sort of, and of COURSE I HAD to order one of them, my dear, because I mean, after ALL, every one OUGHT to show their enTHUsiasm for this perfectly SWEET LINdenbergh boy, but I mean I HONestly think it is SIMply VILE the way people sort of CHEAPen any really GREAT aCHIEVEment in America by comMERcializing it and all— I mean I ACtually DO!” Lloyd Mayer. Nothing Under the Plate GANDY: in a tight place. Jock: What's the trouble? “He's a waiter in Edinburgh.” My son writes that he is Jones; MY WIPE MAS BEE Friend: ou, Were YOU LAID Up? 1 THINK IT’S DARN NICE OF HER. The Pitiful Plight of a Man Whose Memory Never Failed EFORE taking Dr. Whoozit’s memory course, I pos- sessed the usual amount of social assurance. But since my memory improved I have been rebuffed by so many persons whom I remember perfectly, but who fail to remember me, that I am fast losing every semblance of my former poise. Just yesterday came the fin blow. I hap- pened on an old friend whom I hadn’t seen in a dozen years. He was in the com- panyofthat charming lady— former wife. ing his arm, I made myself known to him, and we had ex- changed greetings be- fore he turned to his companion and said, “Let me present my old friend —." Coolly came her reply, “How do you do?” When the attendants from a nearby rium finally captured me, I was standing over aged and be- wildered parents and shouting over and over again, “I don’t know yuh! I don't know yuh! I don't know yuh! There!" R.R. EL NG TO. THE AVIATORS’ BALL?” N po TRY nop ofr?” ‘URSING A TERRIBLE GROUCIL FOR SEVERAL DAYS. comicbooks.com