Life — December 1932 — page 8: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "Life Lines" and "The Hit-and-Run Thinker" This page contains two humor sections from *Life* magazine. The top left shows a cartoon of someone at an elaborate radio control panel labeled with warnings like "DANGEROUS VOLTAGE" and "POLICE RADIO," captioned about turning on "all tops and side curtains" during snow—a joke about domestic radio entertainment becoming overly complicated. The "Life Lines" column offers brief satirical observations on contemporary American culture: standardized writing, theatrical cooperatives, Sunday drives, and Prohibition-era references (mentioning a Wall Street broker kissing a nightclub hostess). "The Hit-and-Run Thinker" by Benjamin DeCasseres presents philosophical quips mocking prohibition, women, Thomas Jefferson, and patriotism—typical satirical aphorisms of the era reflecting 1920s-30s sensibilities.