pooh-bah

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Driven from Peking, where he was Pooh Bah in 1922, by Super-Tuchun Wu, Chang seeks to oust Wu and President Tsao Kun and resume his lordly sway in the Capital.

From Time Magazine Archive

Descended from a primordial atomic globule, you know, like Pooh Bah.

From A Prefect's Uncle by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Pooh Bah may be a very able statesman, entitled to exert his legitimate influence. 

From All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Perhaps there was never in America an instance in which a high official so nearly fulfilled the part of "Pooh Bah."

From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by Ridpath, John Clark

Behind the scenes, unknown to me, Pooh Bah had fainted, and one of his entrances had to be made by Pish Tush.

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.