Life — November 17, 1927 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Life Magazine Page Analysis This page features "The College Comics," a section satirizing young people's romantic and social situations. The main cartoon shows a man contradicting his romantic advances to a woman, with the caption "He: THE FIRST TIME YOU CONTRADICT ME I'M GOING TO KISS YOU. / She: YOU ARE NOT!" Below are three brief comic dialogues mocking dating conventions and marriage. "The Wise-Cracking Sub-Title Writer" column discusses Joseph E. Bussell, a reporter from Blinkerville, New Jersey, whose verbose police reports filled three lines of text. The humor derives from the contrast between his detailed accounts and the mundane subject matter—a stolen bicycle and recovered watch. The satire targets verbose writing styles and young people's courtship rituals typical of 1920s-30s American social life.