panjandrum
Example Sentences
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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
He watched five disarmament conferences with a skeptical eye, came to be a journalistic panjandrum.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1885 he won the world's championship, successfully defended his title until he resigned in 1890, for 66 years served the famed Newport Casino as superintendent and grand panjandrum of tennis courts.
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
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 James Kendall Hosmer
