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

At the time they were written, such sentiments were heresy to the Left Bank literati and their grand panjandrum, Jean-Paul Sartre.

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

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

The phrase is accurate, for Mr. Pond appeared to be panjandrum here, and people of all degree were presented to him, as to royalty.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor