Word: panjandrums
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...forgotten ex-newsboy and shoe-polish hawker was bent on raising as much hell as possible in the industry from which he had been exiled. In October 1929, William Fox celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his film enterprises. Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling a $200,000,000 empire. He had just got control of Loew's, Inc. for some $75,000,000. He paid another $19,000,000 for a string of Gaumont theatres in Britain without ever looking at them. But he owed all this money in short...
...were surprised that so astute a politician as Senator Curtis could regard himself as a serious contender for the favor of the many sections and factions which must be milled and swept together before 555 votes are accumulated for any one at the G. O. Party's big panjandrum. And yet-and yet- And yet the earwig that entered many a Senatorial ear with Senator Harding's nomination in 1920, was a most irresistible earwig. Not for a second could any one doubt that this earwig had attached itself to sincere Senator Curtis. Furthermore, obscure though...