quidnunc

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

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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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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