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panjandrum

[pan-jan-druhm] / pænˈdʒæn drəm /




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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

Even the high panjandrum of Asian neutralism, India's Nehru, showed signs of distress�and the Indian public showed far more.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling a $200,000,000 empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

You must know George Sterling: he is the high panjandrum and a gorgeously good fellow.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose




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