panjandrum

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General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of military atomics, made a minor concession to the cause of science.

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Playboy Panjandrum Hugh Hefner's shares, worth $158 million at the offering price, have fallen about $53 million in value in a little more than two weeks.

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Intellectual Panjandrum Barzun rallies his peers to rout the termites of egalitarianism, mass education, artiness, science worship and similar pests that are destroying, as he sees it, the pillars of civilization.

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He mastered so many fields of learning that G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum."

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Until the Great Panjandrum reads out the lists we're utterly and entirely in the dark.

From The Head Girl at the Gables by Brazil, Angela