Word: conclamatum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What rare new character in fiction cries "Macte!", "Hercle!", "Conclamatum...
...become something equally disturbing to quiet Waiworth; to the respectable Joneses, the Murchthaws, the Quoggses, Inchlings and Updegroves. But not before Mrs. Amy Potter joined them-the new housekeeper, a comely, cheery body from Maryland's Eastern Shore. And not before-with many a "Macte!", "Eheu!", "Hercle!" and "Conclamatum est!" from the emancipated Higbie Chaffinch - a late and vinous banquet had been served in the latter's homestead with Moggs and Kendrick Glasby present, a banquet that incited a dastardly attack by the Ku Klux Klan ("a boy scout movement for children of 40 ... footpads and submorons...
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