Life — July 12, 1929 — page 29: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This satirical comic strip depicts the discomforts of a summer heat wave affecting various aspects of urban life. Each panel shows exaggerated chaos: - **Catching the 8:40 A.M.** depicts crowded commuters scrambling aboard a ship-like vessel, suggesting desperation and disorder. - **A Business Engagement** shows office workers in disheveled, overheated states. - **The Telephone** portrays someone agitated during a call. - **The Letter** depicts a messenger sweating profusely. - **The Omnibus** (streetcar) shows passengers overcome by heat. - **Bed** displays tangled, restless sleep. The title "That heat-wave feeling" anchors the humor in the universal experience of extreme summer temperatures in a crowded city, likely New York, causing irritability, exhaustion, and social breakdown in everyday activities.