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

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

Last week Harry Truman, by right of office, was the presiding panjandrum at the nation's annual rite of spring, the Washington Senators' opening ball game.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is the inventor and presiding panjandrum of two Manhattan eating places that establish him as a restaurateur-impresario sans pareil.

From Time Magazine Archive

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