unearths some literary gems.
From Life, Apr.-June 1929:
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Buckaroo started out to paint a fascinating picture, but the brush slipped.
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I'll wager a scalloped cookie with white icing...
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Rupert Hughes was immortalizing her when Fitzgerald was in whatyoucallems.
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William Haines, the most popular smart-Aleck of the screen
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a London importation with a really-old-thing drawl
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The pièce de résistance, skidding into my French and crawling right out again....
[O. O. McIntyre]
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the bull fiddler was...slipping the kimono on his dog-house [i.e., as the orchestra packs up after a Broadway performance]
[O. O. McIntyre]
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Suddenly...you realize the subtitles were only fooling.
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[Bonus: "side-wheel whiskers": not many search results for that (and none with images handy, alas)]
Notes on a couple of the attachments:
1. I see that the Life subscription ad has made the nautical life saver a giant candy Life Saver. (Unless I'm mistaken, actual life buoys don't have the printed legend "LIFE SAVER" on them!)
2. Note that the picture of the globe with shaving cream confirms that the North and South Poles are indeed barber poles.
3. I didn't know the "lots of time on one's hands" trope went back this far.
