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

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Alas! capricious fate that governs these things turned my sweet, unconscious Ellen to one forever on the alert for the appearance of this long-legged quidnunc.

From The Heart's Country by Mary Heaton Vorse

At week's end the Russians themselves provided an unexpectedly fast answer for the quidnuncs.

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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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The U.S., said the quidnuncs, had alienated "world opinion" by sending its troops into Lebanon.

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Then, as Truman gradually shed six Roosevelt men from the Cabinet, it began to look to Capital quidnuncs as though Ickes were for it.

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Their eager curiosity did not fail to become very inconvenient, and we could well have dispensed with the 20,000 quidnuncs who accompanied us everywhere.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams