Word: quidnunc
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...round, 13-year-old Elaine Hassell of Dallas, the last girl survivor, fluffed on porphyry (she guessed porfiree). Three boys remained: Allan L. Kramer, 13, of Lake Worth, Fla.; Robert Crossley, 13, of Norristown, Pa.; Joel Montgomery, 12, of Denver. And down went Kramer in Round 24; after negotiating quidnunc, eclectic, and sarcophagus, he missed ratiocination. The mellifluous pronouncer ("I give full value to each of the diacritical markings in Webster") was so overcome that he nearly left the stage himself...
Jean tossed off quidnunc; Sandra got verisimilitudinous. Jean got boucle, and Sandra managed baccalaureate. Then Jean spelled cumaphyte with a "cumo," but Sandra missed with a "cume." Finally, the big break came. Jean spelled abbacy "abbosy," and Sandra got it right. The payoff word: crustaceology. C-R-U-S-T-A-C, said Sandra (pause), E-(pause), OLOGY. "The winner!" cried Pronouncer Alleman-and after the usual flurry of congratulations, a stunned but happy Sandra withdrew with her family for a big dish...
Blasphemy was uttered last week: Maestro Arturo Toscanini was criticized out loud. Beaky, bespectacled Sigmund Spaeth, "Tune Detective," barbershop balladeer and general musical quidnunc, told a Los Angeles convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs...
...Hollywood. Thrice weekly over a CBS network she has broadcast tittle-tattle about celluloid hotshots, under the sponsorship of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. 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. Last week Gossip Hopper went swirling to Manhattan to be lionessed at luncheons, ballyhooed all over town...
More than one quidnunc murmured: "Easy guess where the two Morrows are going, but where did they come from?" The answer was : they came from Canada, from a farm not far from Toronto. The history of Brother Frederick is a good deal the shorter of the two. He is 13 years the younger. He is only 42, tall, dark, clean-shaven. His business career has been mainly in Canada although more than once he has joined forces with his brother on both sides of the border. He is a director of the Bank of Toronto and in a chain...
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