Word: potted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having analyzed osculation, the Supreme Court of the Philippines pondered on draw poker, decided that it was a game of chance and hence illegal. Its decision said: "By what is known as bluffing it often happens that a skilful player with the poorest hand wins the pot from the poor player who has the best hand. But even so, in making bets the skilful player takes a chance that he will not be called...
Preacher John Roach Straton cried from his Baptist pulpit: "The pot is calling the kettle black!... I agree with Bishop Manning that the Catholic Church has invaded the precincts of his sect, but the Episcopal Church in its relation to other denominations has assumed very much the same attitude of self-appointed superiority...
Autumn rain in Nebraska made duck-soup of moleskins. Kansas men were slippery as noodles. Stephens of Nebraska shied a field-goal into the pot. It was all. It was enough...
...Americans-The melting pot simmers slowly...
President Lowell has offered his cooperation in a letter to the paper, and now the officials of the Union have started an experiment to see just how keenly those who are taking pot luck about the Square wish to enjoy better eating conditions. With this installation of club tables an actual step has been taken toward a permanent system of this kind on a larger scale. Thus it is obvious that those who wish to see a central eating place, run by the University, where food can be obtained at sane prices and eaten in congenial surroundings in a fashion...