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| | #* '''1755''', [[w:Samuel Foote|Samuel Foote]], ''[[s:The Great Panjandrum|The Great Panjandrum]]'' (a nonsense poem written to test actor [[w:Charles Macklin|Charles Macklin]]'s claim that he could accurately recite any paragraph of text after a single reading), | | #* '''1755''', [[w:Samuel Foote|Samuel Foote]], ''[[s:The Great Panjandrum|The Great Panjandrum]]'' (a nonsense poem written to test actor [[w:Charles Macklin|Charles Macklin]]'s claim that he could accurately recite any paragraph of text after a single reading), |
| | #*: So he died, / and she very imprudently married the Barber: / and there were present / the Picninnies, / and the Joblillies, / and the Garyulies, / and the great '''Panjandrum''' himself, / with the little round button at top; | | #*: So he died, / and she very imprudently married the Barber: / and there were present / the Picninnies, / and the Joblillies, / and the Garyulies, / and the great '''Panjandrum''' himself, / with the little round button at top; |
| | + | #* '''1910''', [[w:Eliakim Littell|Eliakim Littell]], Making of America Project, Robert S. Littell, ''Living age ...'' (''Littell's Living Age''), Volume 265, [http://books.google.com/books?id=RnvmaOiv8RoC&q=%22panjandrum|panjandrums%22&dq=%22panjandrum|panjandrums%22&hl=en&ei=m0uATpK3POXbmAX7pfCiBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCTgo page 809], |
| | + | #*: I think it's an excellent thing that the Great '''Panjandrum''' is coming for the week-end. Have you ever met him in private?" |
| | + | #*: I ought to explain that the Great '''Panjandrum''' was the nickname for Lord Elkindale, the then Foreign Secretary. |
| | #* '''1917''', [[w:George Bernard Shaw|George Bernard Shaw]], ''[[s:Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress|Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress]]'', | | #* '''1917''', [[w:George Bernard Shaw|George Bernard Shaw]], ''[[s:Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress|Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress]]'', |
| | #*: But my family has served the '''Panjandrums''' of Beotia faithfully for seven centuries. The '''Panjandrums''' have kept our place for us at their courts, honored us, promoted us, shed their glory on us, made us what we are. | | #*: But my family has served the '''Panjandrums''' of Beotia faithfully for seven centuries. The '''Panjandrums''' have kept our place for us at their courts, honored us, promoted us, shed their glory on us, made us what we are. |
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| | #* '''1910''', [[w:George Bernard Shaw|George Bernard Shaw]], ''[[s:Misalliance|Misalliance]]'', | | #* '''1910''', [[w:George Bernard Shaw|George Bernard Shaw]], ''[[s:Misalliance|Misalliance]]'', |
| | #*: You can never imagine how delighted I was to find that instead of being the correct sort of big '''panjandrum''' you were supposed to be, you were really an old rip like papa. | | #*: You can never imagine how delighted I was to find that instead of being the correct sort of big '''panjandrum''' you were supposed to be, you were really an old rip like papa. |
| - | #* '''1910''', [[w:Eliakim Littell|Eliakim Littell]], Making of America Project, Robert S. Littell, ''Living age ...'' (''Littell's Living Age''), Volume 265, [http://books.google.com/books?id=RnvmaOiv8RoC&q=%22panjandrum|panjandrums%22&dq=%22panjandrum|panjandrums%22&hl=en&ei=m0uATpK3POXbmAX7pfCiBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCTgo page 809], | |
| - | #*: I think it's an excellent thing that the Great '''Panjandrum''' is coming for the week-end. Have you ever met him in private?" | |
| - | #*: I ought to explain that the Great '''Panjandrum''' was the nickname for Lord Elkindale, the then Foreign Secretary. | |
| | # {{military}} A massive, [[rocket]]-propelled, [[explosive]]-laden [[cart]] designed by the British military during World War II. | | # {{military}} A massive, [[rocket]]-propelled, [[explosive]]-laden [[cart]] designed by the British military during World War II. |
| | #* '''1967''', John Winton, ''The War At Sea, 1939-1945: An Anthology of Personal Experience'', [http://books.google.com/books?id=yNI_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22panjandrum|panjandrums%22&dq=%22panjandrum|panjandrums%22&hl=en&ei=4E6ATsCCBojNmAXbud2iBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCTg8 page 304], | | #* '''1967''', John Winton, ''The War At Sea, 1939-1945: An Anthology of Personal Experience'', [http://books.google.com/books?id=yNI_AAAAYAAJ&q=%22panjandrum|panjandrums%22&dq=%22panjandrum|panjandrums%22&hl=en&ei=4E6ATsCCBojNmAXbud2iBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCTg8 page 304], |
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