Life, 1928-04-26 · page 28 of 35
Life — April 26, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a humor compilation page featuring satirical quotes and cartoons from various newspapers and magazines, mocking contemporary social absurdities. **Key items:** - **Top left**: A man juggling dinner plates while balancing a UFO-shaped object—satirizing the California license plate controversy (unclear exact reference) - **Top right**: "Sally Skunk Attends a Party"—an anthropomorphic animal party scene, likely mocking pretentious social gatherings - **Bottom cartoon**: Two working-class men with tools discussing coffee—a German joke about nervousness when stealing, playing on coffee's stimulant reputation **The page's point**: Life reprints foolish or absurd observations from competing newspapers and magazines, using the Latin header "Aut Scissors aut Nullus" ("Either scissors or nothing")—meaning Life edits/cuts down the most ridiculous contemporary commentary. It's meta-satire: mocking other publications' lowbrow humor and questionable logic while simultaneously publishing that same content.
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Life “Aut Scissors aut Nullus” FORNIA LICENSE PLATES, MEM, nen, wen!” SALLY SKUNK ATTENDS A PARTY. —Chicago Phoenix. —Cornell Widow. No Way to Make It Attractive For some strange reason Tue lure of the tropics: Mahogany and Mopet. simil secure in his rights You can't teach rubber.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. as a woman's dog.”—Louisville Times. Algebra to a kid By discussing it In whispers And hiding the book. —Arkansas Gazette. Lights! Action!! Camera!!! Or course you haven't heard about the poor sap who married a screen star? Well, they separated after a fortnight because she couldn't love him properly without a director present. —New York Graphic. First Lessons in Modesty Lrrriz Ecuert (showing off his treas- ures to a visitor): In this book Mother pastes all the snapshots in which I look too cute for anything, and in that one she writes all the clever things I say. —Ladies’ Home Journal. A Good Fairy Indeed “And then a fairy agecared to him, in her hand a magic wad.""—Children’s Story. Ou, for a fairy like that, with a nice wad of fivers!—Humorist (London). A Dernorr pedestrian was struck by an automobile on the day he was to have left for Chicago. Who says there are no guardian angels?—Detroit News. Attantic Crry, we understand, has abolished the parade of the bathing (?) “SURE, COFFEE MAKES ME NERVOUS—WHEN 1 sTeAL rt!” suit (?) beauties (?).—New Yorker. —Iustige Blatter (Berlin). comicbooks.com