Word: nana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reverence for their services. Famous nurses are plentiful in literary annals: Stevenson's "Cummic" has been immortalized; Lytton Strachey credits an odd individual, Mrs. Salome Leaker, with a vigorous part in his up-bringing; Barrle was intimately aware of the merits of nurse-maids--but even his affectionate "Nana" could hardly find place beside the loyal Southern mammies. Their bed-time stories compare as literature to the legendary fantasy of Ireland, and their lullabies are America's only folk music...