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When times are hard tribal custom compels the Yalalteca to form what are known as Goosons. Twenty-five men declare themselves a gooson, and every week for 25 weeks they each drop two pesos in the "gooson pot." The first week the pot is given to him who is voted the most needy. Next week it goes to another man, the next most needy. When the 25 weeks are up each man has paid in and taken out of the gooson 50 pesos, but, in effect, a loan without interest has been made to each, each loan, proportionate in time...
...Americans-The melting pot comes to a slow boil...
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...