Life, 1927-12-15 · page 25 of 40
Life — December 15, 1927 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page from Life magazine contains three distinct satirical pieces reflecting 1920s American culture: **"Things I Shall Never Forget About the 1927 Football Season"** nostalgically lists memorable college football players and moments, then humorously compares them to legendary early-1900s players (Brickley, Coy, Thorpe, Grange). The joke satirizes how each generation thinks their era produced superior athletes. **"Just Between Us Girls"** is a gossipy monologue where one woman excitedly tells another about her engagement. The humor comes from the breathless, affected speech pattern (capitalized emphases throughout) and shallow concerns—she's thrilled but immediately worried her fiancé is a "skunk" who'll cheat, assuming he must reform simply because he'd marry her. **The cartoon "One Man Who Cashed In on Static"** appears to satirize radio technology and commercialism, though details are partially obscured. **"Protective"** is a brief joke about Chicago's violent reputation: a New York woman asks if a Chicago woman is wearing a corset; she replies it's a "bullet-proof vest"—implying Chicago is so dangerous that armor is necessary.
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Life Things I Shall Never Forget About the 1927 Football Season THE marvelous passing combination of Bennie Ooster- baan and Louie Gilbert of Michigan, The great all-round backfield work of Herb Joesting of Minnesota, The sensational triple- threat activities of Bruce Caldwell of Yale The beautiful hip- twisting runs of — the Irish ghost, Flanagan of Notre Dame. The ninety-four-yard dash to a touchdown by Gibby Welch of Pitts- burgh in the hair-rais- ing game with the Ne- braska Cornhuskers, The brilliant running and passing of Ed Witt I of Princeton. re heroic manner in which Fishwick — and Hammersley of Yale scored in the last nine minutes of the with the Tigers. All these things I am enshrining in my mind along with my mem- ories of Charlie Brickley’s great kicking for Dartmouth in 1905, Ted Coy's work for Northwestern in 1908, Jim yrpe’s epochemaking plunging, punting, and for Nebraska in 1918, and Red Grange’s superhuman broken-field running for Wisconsin in ABSENT-MINDED STREET CLAUS (at door of speakeasy): Say Wassa idea? Don't you re- member my face? game 23 (SUST BEIWEEN US GIRLS | “M> dear, I've just this MINute heard about your * enGAGEment and I'm THRILLED to DEATH —I ACtually AM! I mean I REALLY think it's SIMply MARvelous because simply EV'rybody SAYS it's a PERfect MATCH, my dear! Aren't you TER- ribly exCITed about it, my dear? I mean if it was ME I'd be all-of-a-DOOdah, no less, because I think OScar is SIMply aDORable, my dear. 1 mean he's SIMply FAScinating only I'd be all hot and BOTH ered about having a HUSband who was such a sort of DON JUAN because, my dear, I'd be TERritied I'd LOSE him to so VAMP but I he'll FLIRTing and goir ym BENDers and thi after MARried, my dear, because I mean EV'ry body says he would be a perfect SKUNK if he didn’t sort of reFORM thir like YOU is willing to marry him, do you know what I mean? Well, ANYways, my dear, what do you s'pose he'll want to do eVENtualiy? I there's stop you're ors my dear, when a girl ean 1 don't. s'pose any MONEY in what he's doing NOW, is 1919—or was it 1918? Tupper Greenwald. Progress HE SKEPTIC: But suppose you do find the ruins of a forgotten civili- zation. What good will that do the world? Tie ArciweoLoaist: What good? WI will provide’ an tural “style for Los geles’ next movie palace. Uptown : T saw an attractive lection of Hr: Just above the knee. OMEN paint what they used to be. One Man Who Cashed In on Static. there? Why, my dear, he must have SOME plans or ething because a boy I know AWfully WELL, my dear, told me that simply NObody who worked for THAT company EVer got igh to MARried on but of course it will all WORK OUT, sort of, SOMEhow, my dear, and I wouldn't WORry about it the least BIT because I mean I think it’s SIMply MAR velous about your be- ing enGAGED and all, my dear—I mean I ACtually po!" Lloyd Mayer. Protective EW YORK GIRL: My dear, tell me you're wearing a corset! Cincaco Girt: Don't be ridiculous! This is just my bullet-proof vest comicbooks.com