panjandrum

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

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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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In the three decades since he helped achieve the first artificial release of nuclear energy, British Physicist Sir John Cockcroft has earned a truckload of honors and become the Grand Panjandrum of British atomic affairs.

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Not a muscle moved, and the Little Panjandrum, after staring at him a moment, called out, angrily— “Olla—balloo—calle—gablob?”

From Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo by Farrow, G. E. (George Edward)