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

At the time they were written, such sentiments were heresy to the Left Bank literati and their grand panjandrum, Jean-Paul Sartre.

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

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

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 Hosmer, James Kendall