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
He is the inventor and presiding panjandrum of two Manhattan eating places that establish him as a restaurateur-impresario sans pareil.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Columbia University honored eleven wartime military leaders with honorary doctorates at a special convocation on Feb. 21, 1947,* one of the best known of the names was overseas as military panjandrum of occupied Japan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Empson became the grand panjandrum of the New Criticism, which claimed that a work of literature could best be understood by a detailed analysis of its language.
From Time Magazine Archive
The phrase is accurate, for Mr. Pond appeared to be panjandrum here, and people of all degree were presented to him, as to royalty.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
