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...Miss TIVERTON GOES OUT- Anonymous-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Juliet, the Alice-in-Wonderland member of a parvenu family, blunders through subtle tragedies until the omnipresent influence of next-door Miss Tiverton, the "real thing" personified, aids her sensitiveness to give her that sense of personal reality which is salvation. The flowering of Juliet is accompanied by intimate, memorable portraits: Angela, drifting through life in search of something upon which to "settle"; Leslie, reminiscent of "a whipped puppy and a grocer's assistant in his Sunday best"; Juliet's father who uses "men's words" and hates Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Resurrection | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

According to present plans the other schools will be maintained at Gloucester, New Bedford; Tiverton, R. I.; Greenport, L. I.; Machias, Rockland, Boothbay Harbor, and Portland, Me. Later the training system may be extended to the Pacific coast and the Great Lakes. Dean Burton, of Technology, has been placed in charge of the instruction at these several schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ESTABLISH NAVAL SCHOOL | 6/6/1917 | See Source »

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