Life, 1927-09-15 · page 7 of 40
Life — September 15, 1927 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon - "Higher Geometry":** A professor attempts to explain a triangle to a woman, apparently his wife. The joke plays on double meaning: the professor claims he's explaining geometry, but the caption hints at infidelity—asking which figure is "the wife and which is the other man?" This satirizes academic pretense used as cover for romantic entanglements. **Bottom Illustration - "How Did Nellie Get Her Rib Cracked?":** Depicts a woman injured by a "high-pressure salesman," likely a reference to aggressive salesmen of the era. The accompanying text introduces a minor poet to a women's club, suggesting satire of artistic pretension and amateur poetry readings popular among women's social clubs of the 1920s.
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