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

Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling a $200,000,000 empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

She gave space to Robert Frost long before he became the panjandrum of U.S. poetry.

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