Here's a precursor to John Travolta's famous dance pose in Saturday Night Fever, nearly six decades earlier.  From Grove City College's 1920 yearbook.

"Father kicked the drawing room cushions."  From Chatterbox, 1920.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)

"Out of the magic cup, with scythe and fork, comes dancing death."  From Shadowland, 1922.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.

We wonder if there were any delays when Mr. DeLay raced to meet his deadline for this illustration of Father Time racing the locomotive of progress.  From Shadowland, 1922.

An invisible senior from Guilford's 1927 yearbook.

"The 1000 Dollar Tree."  A map from The End of a Rainbow by Rossiter Johnson, 1920.

From Henderson-Brown's 1923 yearbook.

From the 1921 Ole Miss yearbook.

From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 1929.

From Taylor's 1929 yearbook.

This is why we tend to disbelieve birds who tell us their names.  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.

Here's the password to be whispered thrice, out of anyone's hearing.  From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.  See Magic Words: A Dictionary.

"Gray magic."  From Hearst's, 1921.

From Chowan's 1927 yearbook.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.