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

Eyes shifted to balding, jug-eared Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the party and high panjandrum of Soviet agriculture, whose report of a week previous had revealed the disastrous state of that industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lane Kirkland, the delightful panjandrum of labor, rides through the Washington nights in a chauffeured Chrysler limousine, often as not in a dinner jacket, almost always with his cigarette holder at a jaunty angle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even the high panjandrum of Asian neutralism, India's Nehru, showed signs of distress�and the Indian public showed far more.

From Time Magazine Archive

You must know George Sterling: he is the high panjandrum and a gorgeously good fellow.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose