quidnunc

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

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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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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 Bennett, Arnold

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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But last week quidnuncs had learned enough details to prove that the Administration has under consideration a vast new program of planned prosperity.

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Few political quidnuncs failed to agree that he had chosen the more astute choice.

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On dull days, when there was nothing else to decide, Washington quidnuncs often decided that he was the king-sized nucleus of a new Brain Trust.

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The resuscitation of this classical metre had a queer effect upon the American quidnuncs.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 by Various