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...description of Puerto Rico as a "jungled, swampish, feverish, rum-ridden, slum-ridden 'paradise,' " issue of June 15, has shaken my faith in TIME...
...ridden, slum-ridden"-a very nice little jingle indeedbut not original. Why pick on slums as a particular characteristic of Puerto Rico when the whole world is "ridden" with them, and even the wealthiest country on this earth...
...ridden," I think the phrase could most certainly have been used to describe the condition of your reporter while there, or wherever he was when he wrote. We export most...
Revere was already an old hand at revolution. He was the Boston Committee of Safety's most trusted courier, had ridden thousands of miles. He rode four times to Philadelphia; he could always be trusted to say the right thing. He rode to Durham N.H. to order a raid on the British fort at Portsmouth. Tired, he slept through the raid. He took part in the Boston Tea Party which "spread a windrow of tea from Boston all the way to Dorchester." Without sleep he started for Philadelphia to report what had happened...
...circuit attorney. Last fall Tom Hennings eased into the Navy, went on active duty as a lieutenant commander. He was assigned to Puerto Rico as naval aide to crisp-curled Rexford Guy Tugwell, the original brain-truster, who is now Governor of that jungled, swampish, feverish, rum-ridden, slum-ridden island "paradise...