Life, 1927-11-10 · page 40 of 44
Life — November 10, 1927 — page 40: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct elements: **Left side:** An advertisement for Fougère Royale Shaving Cream—straightforward marketing with no satirical content. **Center: "Lessons in Newyo kese"** — A humorous linguistic sketch by Henry William Hanemann satirizing New York City working-class dialect. The piece is a circular conversation where characters repeatedly ask each other "would you/wouldn't you" (rendered phonetically as "woodja") in increasingly absurd variations, never actually deciding anything. It mocks the verbal patterns and rapid-fire speech rhythm distinctive to 1920s New York working-class speakers, presenting them as indecisive and repetitive. The humor lies in exaggerated phonetic spelling and the characters' inability to reach any conclusion. **Right side:** Two items—a poem titled "Paging Mr. Webster" humorously proposing to "defenestrate" (throw out a window) a train designer whose windows won't open, and a LASSCO cruise advertisement to Hawaii. The page is primarily **advertising-driven**, with the "Newyo kese" piece being the main satirical content targeting regional dialect stereotypes.
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