Life, 1927-10-13 · page 7 of 44
Life — October 13, 1927 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Life magazine contains humor pieces discussing World War I history. The top sketch shows a motorist asking directions to "the next village," with a note that the driver has traveled extensively and worn shoes—likely mocking someone's pretensions or tourist-like wandering during wartime. The main section, "In the Bag," presents boys discussing historical battle details afterward—boys boasting about knowledge of Waterloo, Bull Run, and the World Series. The humor satirizes how children (and adults) confidently recount famous events with incomplete or garbled information. The cartoon "A Wild Pitch" and accompanying dialogue about Life being "a merry-go-round" appear to reference baseball and radio broadcasting, continuing the lighthearted, domestic humor typical of Life's satirical approach during the WWI era.
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@ Oc 9753805 Inquiring Motorist (in remote section of Ozarks): Native: wa-aL, 1 DON’T NIGHTLY How VILLAG KNOW, BUT ILE CALL EPI. TRAVELED ALL OVER. He's GOT sIlOFs. ‘*In the Bag’’ FAR Is IT TO THE NEXT EPWLL KNOW, k's (Various Events of History as Discussed by “the Boys” Immediately Afterwards) After Waterloo: “SQ EESahatd I tell you? The battle was fixed—what I mean to say fired. This Napoleon bird had the whole thing framed from the start—he made up his mind to throw the fight before they fired a gun. Sure he did—just look’'t what happened. Huh? He didn't know about that sunken road? marks like you that lets ‘em get away with that kinda stuff. He had a company of engineers out digging that road deeper for a week before the battle. Why did he do it? Oh, my Gawd! Don'tcha see, he picks up a piece of change from the gamblers and he even Say, brother, it’s easy gets himself a nice rest an’ vacation it St. Helena, What good does it do him to keep on fighting? This way he makes his pile an’ retires. Even a dumbbell like you oughta un- derstand...” Ifter the First Battle of Bull Run: “Gosh, what a raw one! They might at least ’a’ sloughed the battle some way so everybody wouldn't ‘a’ seen it was sloughed—sending them troops across an open field against two hundred cannon—an’ blank car- tridges in most of the Union guns! Ya don't believe it? Listen, friend, I talked to a bird that’s in the know on this and he told me all about it confidentially, see? He the layout is for the South to win this says A HEAD START, one and then have another big battle —that'll as Valu- If Beau- at Bull Run yester: it woulda ended the and then where on the same grounds later on make the movie rights twice able. D'ya get it now? regard had lost day war 4 away would After the last fire or six golf cham- pionships of various sorts “Huh? Ya mean ya know Bobby Jones won with ten under par an’ still ya can't see that the rest of the field lay down for him? Say, that thing was in the bag two weeks before Edward L. Gordy. A Wild Pitch THE radio announcer was trans- mitting a play-by-play-account of the World Series game At citing moment he yelled out “We swang at it!” Seventeen 1 score of only an ex- sets in Boston burned CARL: round. Paci: Yes the girls reaching for the gold ring that means a free ride. Life is just a go- merry with all comicbooks.com