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

She gave space to Robert Frost long before he became the panjandrum of U.S. poetry.

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

I did not care for all this panjandrum of punctiliousness, but was, I hope, civil and chatty with everybody.

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel