Life, 1928-10-26 · page 7 of 40
Life — October 26, 1928 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two main cartoons satirizing early 20th-century American politics and social customs. **Top cartoon**: Shows a woman confronting men, with captions suggesting she's a "virtuoso" whom someone warns "Don't let them kid you—I've been out with that baby." This appears to satirize concerns about women's changing social freedoms and dating practices of the era. **Bottom cartoon**: Depicts a large safe or vault with a man asking "Hey! Give us a hand, willya? Me watch fell under it." This likely satirizes prohibition-era bootlegging or criminal activity, using the safe as a symbol of contraband or illegal operations. The page also includes brief social commentary items mocking various American institutions and customs, reflecting Life magazine's characteristic irreverent humor toward contemporary society.
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the Mohammedans that we would all have to be facing east every morning if he got in and this particular voter likes to face west. Resuct or Straw Vote to Date «41 Hoover ........41 Smith .... ..4t Smith . 41 Rogers . - ..4t Rogers (The ubove tabulation is all wrong.) Hoover ...-- Iv certain sections of the country it was found that there was a great deal of Rutherford B. Hayes sentiment, but purely sentiment, as probably get an indignant letter from Rutherford B. Hayes tomorrow, saying, “Like Mark Twain, the reports my death have been greatly exaggerated.”) Itis hard to keep sentiment out of a polit- ical canvass, as people have their heroes and heroines (many still hold to Rowena in “Ivanhoe” as their favorite heroine, but it has always seemed to us that Rowena was a little colorless. Give us somebody like Becky Sharp. Give us somebody like Becky Sharp, plenty of Charles Heidsieck 1919 and a cozy nook and watch the color come back into these cheeks!) Next week we shall try to tell you about a big trend that we discovered— or rather, the trend that we hope to have discovered by then. We are on the trail of this trend now and hope to catch up with it any day if we hurry. When last seen, the trend had stopped over in Elk- Rutherford B.|_ za is not alive any more. (We shall |* “She's a virtuoso, they tell me.” “Don’t let them kid you—I've been out with that baby.” hart, IIL, to set its watch back an hour to Central Standard Time. Or would it be setting its watch ahead? We shall soon find out. “Hey! Give us a hand, willya? Me watch fell under it,” Before I Forget It Att Iowa license plates bear the line, “Towa Potatoes.” Fancy wearing that on your Rolls-Royce. eee Hollywood—out where the Sex begins. eee Sunshine Biscuits are now published in a box with a wax wrapper, and the Sun- shine Company asks you to try holding it under a faucet for five minutes. I have something else to do for five minutes. eee I can sleep better on a sleeper since I learned not to try to run the railroad. . . . Simile: “As kittenish as the members of a male quartette.” eee Visit, that ye be not visited. eee Matrimony is another institution that makes strange bedfellows. Don Herold. MODEST BEGINNING Eunice: Marjorie’s wedding was quite a nice affair, wasn’t it? Marion: Yes, it was all right tor a starter. comicbooks.com