quidnunc
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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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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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You can hide nothing from the quidnunc of Hanbridge.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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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Political quidnuncs listened to it with blank surprise.
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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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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 quidnuncs of society were as busy as bees.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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