Life, 1929-03-29 · page 15 of 36
Life — March 29, 1929 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects satirical quotes ("Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers") alongside three cartoon illustrations mocking 1920s American life. **Top cartoon**: A rural scene where a boy has mounted what appears to be a cow or large animal, captioned about "Steve's boy" becoming a "rescuer today"—likely satirizing exaggerated rural or frontier mythology. **Middle cartoon**: Shows a car accident with the caption about "hot dogs that will chase us," apparently mocking Prohibition-era anxieties and automotive culture's rapid expansion. **Bottom cartoon**: Depicts a father profiting from his daughter's popularity with suitors parked outside their home, labeled "Maztazish capitalizes his daughter's popularity"—social satire about parents exploiting their children's romantic appeal for financial gain. The page overall ridicules contemporary American values: consumerism, Prohibition, automotive obsession, and commercialized romance.
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Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers If you will stop to think about this, I think you will agree with me that radio is potentially a tremendous force for moral stimulation. —Graham McNamee. No one can learn merely by reading books. —Bruno Lessing. A country this the oldest and there- fore the most important country in the world quite naturally produces the creators and so naturally it is I an American who was and is thinking in writing was born in America and lives in Paris. —Gertrude Stein. Prohibition made America peevish. —Vina Delmar. Bachelors are the only respectable people left. —H. L. Mencken. Homekeeping hearts are happiest. —Dorothy Dix. It is not possible to hate a man who's on a dict. —Heywood Broun. Caesar had it easier in life than Na- poleon, For Caesar was Caesar and Napoleon played at being Napoleon, though, to be sure, no one else would have been so well cast for the part. —Arthur Schnitzler. Only the unfamiliar is odd. —Aldous Huxley. A fragrant breath is an inestimable possession. —Bernarr Macfadden. It is meet that men should rule their wives, for there is scarcely a mar- riage where the man is not better than the woman he marries.—A. B. See. All women dress alike. —Paul Poiret. There would be little traffic in illegal liquor if only criminals patronized it. —President Hoover. We all take our hats off to the mother of five small children. —Dr. S. Parkes Cadman. “I never thought Steve's boy would mount to nothin’, but he shot a revenuer today.” Macta: vtsh capitalizes his daughter's popularity. comicbooks.com