Life, 1927-08-18 · page 14 of 36
Life — August 18, 1927 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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**"Home from the Honeymoon"** (top illustration): A couple returns from their honeymoon. The husband asks if the waiter served them well; the wife responds sarcastically that she "adored it" but can't wait to get back for their divorce. This jokes about marriage troubles—suggesting even newlyweds are already unhappy, a common satirical theme about modern matrimony. **"Am I Crazy?"** satirizes geographic ignorance, mocking people who claim distant cities are adjacent (Los Angeles near New York, Pittsburgh near Petrograd). The author claims he invented the "ringside" seating concept at sports events, establishing himself as reasonable while others lack basic geography knowledge. The remaining pieces appear to be humorous short stories rather than political commentary.
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Romany Song Sho for the woods and meadows And the green of the Watchung hills With the picnic nooks by the babbling brooks And the music of pebbly: rills. It’s hey for the winding highway That the heart of a gipsy calls And hurrah for the lure of that mean detour ‘Three miles from Bollinger’s Falls! Yo ho for the drone of the engine And the drone of the humming tire And the low clear 1 of the Klaxon’s throat That echoes o'er field and byre. There's a song in the heart of a rover And a lilt in the summer air And a strangled ery as the tank goes dry Ten miles from anyoldwherc! Then holla! ye merry drivers. Yoicks! Yoicks! brave lords of the road. Come lad! Come lass! Come step on the gas And away with your jolly load. Come speed through the open country— And the haunt of the woodland elf While I sit here with a large cool beer And really enjoy myself! Baron Ireland. How I Became a Social Wow THEY grinned when the waiter spoke to me in Greek, but their laughter changed to astonishment at my . cau ade Home from the Honeymoon N He: WELL, SWEETHEART, HOW DID you LIKE Parts? dy reply. ! She: ou, 1 adored it! .exn't wait To Ger BACK THERY I wanna roasta bif san'wich, str-r-romberry pie, two | ror ovr pivorce! cup skawfee,” was the simple and clear statement I { made without hesitation. } Am I Crazy? rt TAKE my word for it, Loy Angeles is located near | } New York. 1 Nome is quite close to New Orleans i The distance from Duluth to Dublin is scarcely any distance at all. Pittsburgh and) Petrograd are practically adjacent cities. nectady is hardly a stone's throw from Madrid Chicago and Shanghai are situated so close to each other that you might almost say they touch: Am T crazy? Not at all. Tam the man who origi nated the idea of putting two hundred and fifty rows of seats on an athletic field and calling them all “ringside.” Tupper Greenwald. Meeting Dad TED: So your father is to accompany you on a camp ing trip?) When did you make friends with him? Nev: Oh, I got acquainted with him one day at a father-and-son golf tournament Revenge Tie VICTIM OF RACK-SEAT DRIV- ING TAKES His WIFE POR A RIDE ON AN ROLLER- COASTER. T midnight there came a groan from the cellar. A nomentary: siler the electric refrigers then an agonized sereech—and orowas doing its stuff. tye comicbooks.com