quidnunc
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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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And down went Kramer in Round 24; after negotiating quidnunc, eclectic, and sarcophagus, he missed ratiocination.
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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
In each, however, enough non-Roosevelt votes were cast to set political quidnuncs to arguing on the significance, if any, of the loser's strength.
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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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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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Political quidnuncs listened to it with blank surprise.
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A fine knot of Carlist quidnuncs, said I to myself, and turned away to another part of the meadow, where the cattle of the village were grazing.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry
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