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Word: grandam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

Most college men regard the realm of the psychic only as an inexhaustible mine of rather interesting stories, and a "medium" as a species of charlatan earning a living by making giggling girls jump. In view of this wide-spread "he-man" contempt of such stories "authorized by a grandam", it is surprising that Professor MacDougall received as many as six hundred replies out of the fifteen hundred questionnaires which he sent forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOOKS AND EXPERIMENTS | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

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