quidnunc

Editor Upshaw was no longer a quidnunc but a martyr and a St George.

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Supplementing her syndicated newspaper column, Hedda's program has helped her to move in on the domain of Louella Parsons, Hearst's quidnunc extraordinary, who used to have Hollywood in her pudgy palms.

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And down went Kramer in Round 24; after negotiating quidnunc, eclectic, and sarcophagus, he missed ratiocination.

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More than one quidnunc murmured: "Easy guess where the two Morrows are going, but where did they come from?"

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Moreover, when a quidnunc in the streets of Hanbridge sees somebody famous or striking, or notorious, he does not pretend that he has seen nobody.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Last week the quidnuncs of Cambridge, Mass, had the satisfaction of coupling the Government's gold chase with the professor's resignation.

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For almost six months it had been expected; quidnuncs had talked of it confidently for many weeks; conservative correspondents had spoken of it with confidence for several days.

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Since Raskob's Rule came from a motor-maker, quidnuncs laughingly pointed to automobile stocks as they studied belated earnings reports for the first six months of 1929.

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But political quidnuncs are beginning to ask whether the President may not be forced to call an extra session at an earlier date.

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All through the night of the fifth of May there was a crowd on the Boulevard Suchet; and quidnuncs and night birds of every kind came trooping up to hear the latest news.

From The Teeth of the Tiger by Maurice Leblanc