Life, 1927-07-07 · page 11 of 42
Life — July 7, 1927 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top cartoon shows two boxers in a fighting stance, captioned "Preliminaries." The joke targets boxing culture: the first fighter is "nothing but a low-down filthy bum," while the second says "come outside and say that." This satirizes the theatrical insults and posturing that precede actual fights. The lower cartoon, "The Marshmallow Nut Kind," depicts a cocktail party where a man asks about a soda jerk who "used to wait on us here." The woman replies she hasn't seen him in a month of Sundays. The satire likely mocks the social climbing of service workers or the transient nature of working-class employment during this era. The title suggests the subject has become frivolous or insubstantial.
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