quidnunc

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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And down went Kramer in Round 24; after negotiating quidnunc, eclectic, and sarcophagus, he missed ratiocination.

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

From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison

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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The U.S., said the quidnuncs, had alienated "world opinion" by sending its troops into Lebanon.

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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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Since Raskob's Rule came from a motor-maker, quidnuncs laughingly pointed to automobile stocks as they studied belated earnings reports for the first six months of 1929.

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Now east, west, north, and south, The quidnuncs are giving mouth, Till the Manager would gladly close his ears.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 9, 1892 by Various