Word: panjandrums
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...offered by the one who declared the war." No sooner had McCormack sat down than Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, arose to denounce the same judge: "He thinks he is the be-all and end-all of wisdom. He is a sort of judicial panjandrum and, therefore, never hesitates to act as judge, prosecutor and jury." Then, where McCormack had not, Manny Celler named his man: "It is just as well that justice is blind; she might not like some of the things done in her name by Judge Wryzanski...
...London in 1908, at the age of 25, was imagist poetry. Hulme preached the primacy of the image, since he believed that man's only sure grasp of reality was through analogy and metaphor. Though his disciple Ezra Pound gave the school its name and became its chief panjandrum, it was Hulme who wrote the first imagist verse, including what T. S. Eliot has called "two or three of the most beautiful short poems in the language." Sample...
What was different about the latest Atlas was its "full inertial" guidance system built by American Bosch Arma Corp. of Long Island, and founded on techniques worked out at M.I.T.'s famed Instrumentation Laboratory whose director, Professor Charles Stark Draper, is the Grand Panjandrum of inertial guidance. Early in World War II, Draper became convinced that bombsights could be made enormously more accurate by stabilizing them with improved gyroscopes. When long-range missiles came into the picture after the war, Draper and his M.I.T. group began developing gyroscopic instruments to steer the rockets through...
...emotional did the controversy become that Novelist André Malraux himself, the cultural grand panjandrum of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, solemnly promised the National Assembly that the treasures would be "brought out" some time in 1960. But where should they be exhibited? Malraux thought of the new industrial exhibition hall in the suburb of Puteaux, but the hall was obviously too far away for most Parisians. Next he thought of Paris' Grand Palais, but the Palais, which usually features automobile shows, household arts exhibits and the like, had had too many fires. Finally, Malraux hit upon...
...none other than California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, who landslid over Knowland in the state's 1958 gubernatorial race. White House Hopeful Brown was there to pass out awards on behalf of the California Newspaper Publishers Association. He handed Bill Knowland, now the editorial panjandrum of the Knowland family-owned Oakland Tribune (circ. 208,198), the first-place plaque in the competition among dailies of over 100,000 circulation for the best coverage of women's interests...