Word: rheum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floodlights." On a wall was chalked, in letters ten feet high: GOOD NEWS! GOD IS LOVE! In Milwaukee and St. Louis (where "the true morbidity of the American soul finds its outlet"), the houses "seemed to have been decorated with rust, blood, tears, sweat, bile, rheum and elephant dung." Pittsburgh was "the crucible where all values are reduced to slag." Detroit "can do in a week for the white man what the South couldn't do in 100 years to the Negro." "The most typical American city" was Cleveland. "Possessing all the . . . prerequisites for life, it remains . . . dead...