Life — August 7, 1931 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Content Analysis This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a Colgate shaving products advertisement featuring a man being shaved, with comparative diagrams showing "ordinary lather" versus "Colgate lather." The right column contains **contest results** from Life magazine's Golf Title Contest (closed July 1), listing winners who submitted golf-related titles. These appear to be humorous titles like "Blues On The Green" and "Gone Are The Gay Nineties." Below the contest results is a word puzzle called "Anagrins," where readers unscramble letters to form new words—standard puzzle content from this era. There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page. It's a typical 1931 magazine layout mixing advertisements with reader contests and puzzles.