Life, 1929-08-02 · page 13 of 40
Life — August 2, 1929 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page contains a section titled "Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers" featuring quotations from various public figures (Isaac Goldberg, Dorothy Dix, James Barrie, and others) on life philosophy. Below are two cartoon illustrations: 1. **Top cartoon**: A man in a suit and bowler hat plays guitar while trying to stay afloat in water, explaining to another man that he's "getting a life preserver." This appears to be a visual pun playing on the phrase "getting a life." 2. **Bottom cartoon**: A stable hand addresses his employer about a horse, using dialect humor. The joke appears to rely on the character's working-class speech patterns and the double meaning of "hawss" (horse) for comedic effect—typical of early 20th-century humorous cartoons using caricatured dialect for laughs.
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Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers Despite the stupid censorship of Massachusetts and points west, when a man looks at a woman, it is per- fectly normal that certain thoughts among others should occur. —Isaac Goldberg. Not all men are born Romeos any more than they are born with tenor voices. —Dorothy Dix. If Shakespeare had come to London nowadays he would have become a journalist. —Sir James Barrie. I shall exert my influence with a negligent Almighty the day I arrive in Heaven. —George Jean Nathan. Biorro: Try to keep afloat, “Doctor Millikan explained Ein- buddy, I'm getting a stein’s theory of relativity! What life preserver. could cocktails—absent, of course, but not even conspicuously absent—have added to such an evening?” —Mabel Walker Willebranat. Life is too short to expend one’s time and effort on every dog that barks. —Dr. S. Parkes Cadman. Green Stasce Hann: I'm jest yawnin’ t’ make th’ hawss yawn so's 1 kin git his bridle on. comicbooks.com