"He had put on a pink bathrobe!"  From Youth's Companion, 1924.

"Bachelor friends."  From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1953.

From Youth's Companion, 1921.

From the New Yorker, 1928.  [Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.]

"Those specially-massaged legs of his won another five points."  From Youth's Companion, 1924.

From The Old Line, 1947.  He's perhaps gesturing the weeping tone "Lah," as we learn in The Standard Course of Lessons and Exercises in the Tonic Sol-fa Method of Teaching Music by John Curwen, 1901.

"New experiences are communicated."  From Muhlenberg's 1962 yearbook.

From Vanity Fair, 1927.  [Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]

From Purple Parrot, 1936.

Twenty-three inseparable pairs of manfriends.  From Concordia Teachers College'a 1928 yearbook.

From The Moving Picture World, 1920.

The caption says they're "inseparable off as on the screen.  They are of the same height and have the same tastes. They even smoke the same brand of cigars at the same time, and one match does for both of them."  From Picture Show, 1920.

From Nebelspalter, 1930.

"'You didn't miss much,' Julien informed him.  For a minute questions gnawed upon Lee's silence.  He suppressed them."  From Collier's (1937).

"Now you cannot take your hands away."  From How to Mesmerise: A Manual of Instruction in the History, Mysteries, Modes of Procedure, and Arts of Mesmerism, or, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, Clairvoyance, Thought Reading, and Mesmeric Entertainment by Hames Coates, 1890.

"Excels in making sailors feel happy."  Ahem, it's the very definition of "yeoman service."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.

They believe they're a newlywed couple, after hypnosis ... or perhaps even before hypnosis.  From Practical Lessons in Hypnotism by William Wesley Cook, 1901.

Mop wigs adorned with what we presume are sprigs of mistletoe to invite kisses.  From Western Michigan's 1965 yearbook.

From The Film Daily, 1938.

Cupid accidentally shoots a love arrow at a male couple, and the moon approves.  From Nebelspalter, 1933.