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Since the exodus of Kaiser Wilhelm, periodic rumors of revolt have kept the German pot a-boiling. German Ministries have ebbed and flowed but only one bubble in the pot has come to the surface the Kapp Pusch of 1920. This bubble was soon burst. In the alchemy of internal turmoil, the characteristics of Prussia have changed places with those of Bavaria and Saxony. Berlin beams with sunny cordiality, while Munich and Dresden are lowering with political ferment...
Chemists who examined rice left in the pot said enough poison had been used to wipe out the entire community...
...official investigation into the deaths, Chien Ah-Li, a discharged cook, said that his fellow conspirator, Pi Ho-Song, stole a bottle containing a white powder from the chemical laboratory of the school and dumped the contents into the rice pot. It appears that both men were recently discharged and took this simple way of giving vent to their grievance...
...rumor has it the largest pot in the continuous poker game operated by members of the 67th Congress was $32,000; another, that it was $24,000. [The game is played in a small building near the Department of Justice...
...condition, which took twelve hundred years to develop in Greek athletics, has arisen in our own "athletic period" in half a century. The tramp athlete, "fixing" of officials, pot hunters, were not unknown in Hellas. At last the professional trainer appeared and with him the training table and the specialist. To take care of them and the crowds who wanted to see them, huge stadiums were built. The whole system became commercialized...