[Ads-l] new to me: _slum-shocked_

[Wilson Gray]

Negro Digest - Volume 2 - Page 8
https://books.google.com/books?id=liAtAQAAMAAJ
1944 - ‎Snippet view
The New Republic - Volume 110 - Page 405
https://books.google.com/books?id=9jYQAAAAIAAJ
1944 - ‎Snippet view
The kids and the grown-ups are not criminal or low by nature. Poverty,
however, and frustration have made some of them too desperate to be decent.
Some of them don’t try any more. _Slum-shocked_, I reckon."

Based on "shell-shocked," no doubt.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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