quidnunc
Example Sentences
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Editor Upshaw was no longer a quidnunc but a martyr and a St George.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
And down went Kramer in Round 24; after negotiating quidnunc, eclectic, and sarcophagus, he missed ratiocination.
From Time Magazine Archive
More than one quidnunc murmured: "Easy guess where the two Morrows are going, but where did they come from?"
From Time Magazine Archive
He even becomes a quidnunc, prying now and then into the personal affairs of his superiors.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
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O'Reilly's Lexicon of Epithets
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The House of the Seven Gables
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