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...best-seller list with dead felines, make impoverished math graduate students rich. For all the collectors of bottomless ashtrays, Rubik's Cubes now come in monocolored and multicolored, but two faced, models, neither of which encloses a solution. The success of ideal Toy Corporation resembles, that of the Grot Company, a creation of British television Grot sells only useless things. After the sales of Rubik's Cube and its various geometrically precise successors decline, American industry will step up the production of rungless ladders...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: The Shape of Our Times | 2/10/1982 | See Source »

...grot down the steps of Dillon fieldhouse you put on your helmet so the fans can see how tough you are and you puff up your chest so they can see what a big mother you are and then you're in the stadium; the sounds coming from the stands are reassuringly loud and the grass feels thick and lush and you finally

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: A day in the life of... | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Died. Sumner Welles, 68, urbane, aristocratic architect of the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, a Grot-on-and-Harvard product who headed the State Department's Latin American Affairs Division at 29, as Under Secretary of State became the confidant of Family Friend Franklin Roosevelt and served as personal presidential emissary on fruitless prewar missions to Hitler and Mussolini, only to be forced into resignation-and virtual retirement-in 1943, when Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a "him or me" ultimatum to F.D.R.; in Bernardsville, N.J. Condemned by critics as the embodiment of traditional striped-pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 6, 1961 | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...sort or another. It is presented instead in a sentimental mood which ill befits the confusion between Brent's romantic interest in the heroine and his thoroughly ungallant professional curiosity. What makes The Keyhole acceptable entertainment is the charm of Kay Francis' acting, good settings by Anton Grot and a few amusing sequences in which Allen Jenkins, as a brash and dipsomaniac assistant detective, pursues a mercenary blonde (Glenda Farrell) under the delusion that she is an heiress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 10, 1933 | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

Whose home is coral cave and azure grot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union of Three Muses Features Dedication of Fogg Art Museum | 6/21/1927 | See Source »

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