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

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

Also seeking a ticket to Columbus is Wayne Hays, the former grand panjandrum of the House Administration Committee, who was brought low by his high jinks with Elizabeth Ray.

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

He had somehow got hold of the regalia of the order and drawlingly announced himself as the great panjandrum who had come to take part.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall