quidnunc

Example Sentences

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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.

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

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

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The rest can wait until you tell me what new quidnunc tale was invented to lure you here.”

From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster