Life, 1929-05-10 · page 14 of 44
Life — May 10, 1929 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page features "Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers"—a collection of witty quotations from notable figures, paired with satirical cartoons. **Top Cartoon:** Shows giant insects (a fly and spider) looming over a formal dinner party. The satire appears to mock social pretension—elegant diners remain oblivious to absurd danger, suggesting the upper class ignores obvious problems. **Bottom Cartoon:** Depicts an archer aiming at a sculpture labeled "SCULPTURE" while others pose nearby. The caption "Blotto—Lady, you make being held up a real pleasure!" suggests drunken behavior and questionable conduct at what appears to be an art exhibition, satirizing both artistic pretension and post-Prohibition drinking culture. Both cartoons use exaggeration to mock contemporary social behaviors and attitudes of the era.
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12 Little Rambles With Serious Thinkers “T don’t know how you feel about it, but when the Coast Guard, after due and repeated warning, sent their shells into the hull of the I’m Alone, a thrill of appreciation ran through my veins. It was American.” —Deets Pickett. The post-war girl is a very different person from the pre-war girl—better in some respects, not so fine in others. —St. John Ervine. The rule is that if you do not wish to be gored by a wounded rhinoceros, the best plan is not to go where a wounded rhinoceros is likely to be found. —lJay E. House. Has made, as it has made as it has made, has made has to be as a wife has a cow, a love story. Has made as to be as a wife has a cow a love story. As a wife has a cow, as a wife has a cow a love story. Has to be as a wife has a cow a love story. Has made as to be as a wife has a cow a love story. —Gertrude Stein. To cut one’s salad with a knife is not a sin, though it is more severely punished than throwing bombs. —Will Durant, 2, Tne waiter who made good, Biorro—Lady, you make being held up a real pleasurel Liverpoor? Sot a bit of it! His braynes coolt parritch, his pelt nassy, his heart’s adrone, his bluidstreams acrawl, his puff but a piff, his extreme- ties extremely so Humph is in his doge. Words weigh no more to him than raindrips to Rethfernhim. —James Joyce. Good looks are rather more im portant to a man than to a woman. —Heywood Broun. If our young women were to give up decorating themselves, we would have ‘real cause to worry over the fu- ture of this country. —F. Scott ritzgerald. I have never had a drink in my eo tire life. —Texas Guinan. What is the Jones law? —Helen Morgan. comicbooks.com aoe oe ae eee oe