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
Lane Kirkland, the delightful panjandrum of labor, rides through the Washington nights in a chauffeured Chrysler limousine, often as not in a dinner jacket, almost always with his cigarette holder at a jaunty angle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had somehow got hold of the regalia of the order and drawlingly announced himself as the great panjandrum who had come to take part.
From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by James Kendall Hosmer
