Tomorrow, March 30, is National Doctors' Day. Let's commemorate the occasion with a Barbara Shermund 1940 Esquire cartoon set in a physician's office. The doctor looks quite experienced, but his sole role in the gag is to express shock at the goings on of young people these days. Shermund limits her palette to sepia tones; there is nothing to distract us from the two characters and their encounter.
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| "You see, the party was chaperoned on the honor system[.]" Barbara Shermund Esquire, January 1940, page 79 |
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| https://classic.esquire.com/article/1940/1/1/you-see-the-party-was-chaperoned-on-the-honor-system |
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