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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Best guess of Washington quidnuncs last week: South Carolina's fox-shrewd Senator James Francis Byrnes, a politician's politician as other men are poet's poets or engineer's engineers�mellow, human, but not profound.

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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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Last week the quidnuncs of Cambridge, Mass, had the satisfaction of coupling the Government's gold chase with the professor's resignation.

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The quidnuncs of the town, who chanced to see him, and who had heard something of the political movements of the day, thought, no doubt, that he was meditating his future ministerial career.

From Can You Forgive Her? by Trollope, Anthony