panjandrum
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Roberts’ smoldering, high-beam intensity caught the attention of Joe Papp, a panjandrum of New York theater who cast Roberts in a Public Theater production of the Civil War drama “Rebel Women.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024
When Columbia University honored eleven wartime military leaders with honorary doctorates at a special convocation on Feb. 21, 1947,* one of the best known of the names was overseas as military panjandrum of occupied Japan.
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Also seeking a ticket to Columbus is Wayne Hays, the former grand panjandrum of the House Administration Committee, who was brought low by his high jinks with Elizabeth Ray.
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Robert Moses, New York's panjandrum park commissioner, who has sounded off on just about everything and been righteously rude to just about everybody, let loose his Mosaic thunders at a small-statured victim.
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There were abbots and prelates, knights and squires, and all who delighted to honor the great panjandrum of Rheims.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham