Life, 1928-05-10 · page 17 of 50
Life — May 10, 1928 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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The page contains two distinct pieces: **Top Cartoon:** Shows a businessman firing an employee, stating "I had to fire an old employee today. I felt sorry but sentiment isn't got no place in business." This satirizes capitalist callousness during the economic era (likely 1920s-1930s based on style), mocking the disconnect between business ruthlessness and human sentiment. **Bottom Section:** "The Weekly Lesson of the Learn-to-Dance-by-Mail School Contains a Typographical Error" lampoons mail-order dance instruction, a common Depression-era advertised service. The humor derives from a counting mistake in dance steps—the instructor gets flustered during numbered instruction, revealing the absurdity of learning dance through correspondence rather than in-person. Both pieces target American commercial culture and correspondence-based self-improvement schemes.
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