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

Moments later, he took the rostrum to deliver a dart-sharp speech calling for a complete overhaul and rejuvenation of the Republican Party, from precinct captain to panjandrum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Empson became the grand panjandrum of the New Criticism, which claimed that a work of literature could best be understood by a detailed analysis of its language.

From Time Magazine Archive

He watched five disarmament conferences with a skeptical eye, came to be a journalistic panjandrum.

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