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

...Have you," meant Dr. Smith, "yet got sense enough to come in out of the rain without a yank from your mamma's apronstrings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Self-Examination | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...Story. Victor Campion was born at The Maples on his father's birthday. His advent was hastened by a spring gust off the Delaware that blew a little white shawl from Mamma's neck into the face of Papa's skittish new filly. Papa was pitched on his head in the drive, never to see his heir. Mamma crumpled on the steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Male Vegetable* | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...their lives. Shallow, placid Mrs. Campion let the estate leak through her plump fingers. A carefully washed and brushed Mr. Lacey sought to be her second husband, and would have been but that Victor had a nightmare of Mr. Lacey as a catfish in a tailcoat and wailed until Mamma promised not to let him be "Victor's dear new Papa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Male Vegetable* | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

Dreamy Aunt Priscilla fed Mamma some silvery "mushrooms," which filled The Maples with a thin screaming for three days. That left Victor in charge of his sisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Male Vegetable* | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...Mamma served to bring Alice Brady back to the stage after years of doing nothing except Zander the Great for a brief season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 31, 1925 | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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