Life, 1929-01-04 · page 17 of 36
Life — January 4, 1929 — page 17: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
**Top Cartoon**: A woman confronts a man about his date's appearance. The woman says, "She's really a lot older than she looks" and the man replies, "Yes, and what's more—she looks it." This is a classic joke about deceptive appearance and romantic disappointment—the date appears young but isn't, and paradoxically, she also looks old. The satire targets male vanity and the gap between romantic expectations and reality. **Bottom Cartoon ("Excuse It, Please")**: A telephone operator kneels by a car, having apparently caused an accident while distracted. The joke mocks her excuse: she got the number but was distracted. This satirizes carelessness and the emerging distraction caused by technology—suggesting telephone operators (typically women in this era) were inattentive to their surroundings.
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15 VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 22—Pur- chasing a trunk for $14.50 at an unclaimed baggage sale, J. E. Betis, of Burnaby, found inside a wooden casket containing \the embalmed body of a man. Imagine his embarrassment. LUGANO, Dec. 14 (A. P.)—A pro- posal to prevent war by an international ‘police force of aviators was submitted to the League of Nations tonight by Colonel ‘Clifford B. Harmon, of New York, presi- |dent of the International League of Avia- tors. Pull over to the cloud. PREMIER LAUDS U. S. LONDON—Premier Stanley Baldwin praised American tobacco and detective stories at the Thanksgiving Day dinner of | the American Society at the Savoy Hotel. Come, come, Stanley, you forgot the skyline. MOSCOW Dec. 21—Fourteen persons will be tried in Baku for paying out half a million rubles from Government funds | for the use of oil lands belonging to the Government. : . If we didn’t know differently, we'd say “She's really a lot older than she looks. those fellows were working for a De- “Yes, and what’s more—she looks it.” mocracy. ANGORA, Turkey—Dr. Mezhar Os- man, leading Turkish alienist, estimates that 50 per cent of the women in his country are insane or neurasthenic as a result of the freedom of privilege allowed them during the past few years. Theme Song— “Sweet Angora Mama Don’t Lose Your Goat.” FORMER CONVICTS MAKE POOR BANKERS PARIS, Dec. 23—Ex-Convicts have proved to be so unsatisfactory as bankers that the Government has introduced a bill to keep them out of the money-handline profession. You don’t mean it? PHILADELPHIA, December 24— Dean Walters, of Swarthmore College de- cares that reports from 216 colleges and universities throughout the country show the smallest increase in enrollment since the war. Which is the most encouraging thing Excuse It, PLease we have heard this year concerning the TeverrHone Girt (picking herself up): Well, I got his number, anyway, younger generation. It was N. H. 361241 W.” comicbooks.com