The despair is real.
These characters from sheet music covers in the 1920s show what we've always thought about that degenerate decade: Darkness and desperation were lurking just below the surface. Take a gander at...
This lady, for whom the very sight of a light bulb is yet another reminder of her broken heart.
This gentleman, who is peering out of a rooster, trying to remember what it was like to be a man who was not trapped in a rooster.
This monocled man, who is aggrieved that even at his advanced age he continues to be called upon to explain that, yes, he's still single.
