Life, 1928-07-26 · page 19 of 36
Life — July 26, 1928 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This cartoon satirizes a golfer who missed a six-inch putt—a laughably easy shot. The humor lies in the caption's implication that the golfer adopted the ostrich's famous (though mythical) strategy of burying its head in sand when faced with difficulty. The two figures on either side react with exaggerated shock and dismay at this absurd approach to golf. The cartoon mocks not just poor golf performance, but the human tendency to respond to minor embarrassments or failures by metaphorically "hiding"—a universal comedic target that remains relevant today. The satirical point: sometimes we handle small defeats poorly through avoidance rather than acceptance.
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ny nt, sthful n the ed 30 Wz. tralia s inp reat intos give pace es for nd is orted uzet isa on to He Got tHe Ine FROM AN OstTRICH [Strothmana | The humiliated golfer who missed a six-inch putt. the Hayes whose Winton was injured) has been honored with a life membership on the board of directors of the South of Market Girls. She is affectionately called “Lizzie” by her many friends and they are legion. * Adolph Uhl gave a sizzling talk a few nights ago protesting against some- thing else. ***Mr. Tsuneo Matsudaira, who has charge of the Mikado of Japan's branch office in Washington, D. C., spent a pleasant few hours here on his way home to Tokio, which is the capital of “The Cherry Kingdom” (Japan). ***Ping” Bodie got himself a nice hit a few games ago but he only went to third, inspite of the advice of several fans that he could of gone home. “Ping” used to be with the Yankees, leaving them just before they started the winning habit, though we guess that was just a coinci- dence. Chet Johnson. New York Turovore Dreiser of near Bedford Hills was a visitor to Geo. Bye’s place rear Stamford. ***Miss Phyllis Smith of Morristown, N. J., will be one of Aug. 4's brides, to John Swayze of Newark. *Electric iceboxes are pretty common in town now, and we wonder how long it will be before there is a device invented for cooling houses. **°The road in Weston, Conn., to ye scribe’s farm, Indian Spring, is so bad that Mont Glass thinks we ought to call the place Broken Spring. *°°The streets in this town are in a bad condition of paving, they being full of holes, 5th av. being no exception to the charge. How long must we endure this, is what we ask. **eJames R. Angell pres. of Yale Uni- versity is abroad on the continent of Europe, picking up ideas about teaching. Jim got over too late to see the Davis Cup tennis matches, although he was a mem- ber of the University of Michigan tennis team before the Chicago World's Fair. Franklin P. Adams. IT’S A GRAND OLD NAG “Does your wife nag you as much as formerly?” “Yes; but now she calls it psycho- analyzing.” Gotven Wedding anniversary for a companionate marriage—the end of the first week. NO TRESPASSING! “Ler me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man,” sang the poet, who, a week later, decided to place an electrically charged fence around his BraxeMan: Well! Ya didn’t expect ta see me, did ya? Tramp: No—but I'm awfully glad you came. I want you to throw out those bags of apples. They smell something awful! comicbooks.com