January 10, 1889

John Held, the cartoonist whose New Yorker drawings defined the 1920s in America, shared the determination of this decade to avert its eyes from serious questions. In his book,"The Flesh is Weak," 1931, we find the following kind of humor, developing the conceit of love-birds:

Then we went to love-making, and soon she laid two nice white eggs and set to
hatch a family. We were very happy until one night a cat got her.

Held was born on January 10, 1889.