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a great she-bear, coming down the street, pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? 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; and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as ...
Close view. Panjandrum, also known as The Great Panjandrum, was a massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II.It was one of a number of highly experimental projects, including Hajile and the Hedgehog, that were developed by the Admiralty's Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD) in the final years of the war.
This introduced the nonsense term "The Grand Panjandrum" into the English language and the name was adopted for the Panjandrum or Great Panjandrum, an experimental World War II-era explosive device. With Foote's success in writing An Englishman in Paris, Irish playwright Arthur Murphy was moved to create a sequel, The Englishman returned from ...
The link could also be changed to The Great Panjandrum Himself, a book based on the same text, and that article (currently a stub) could mention the coinage of the word and its later meanings. -- McGeddon ( talk ) 15:53, 17 September 2016 (UTC) [ reply ]
Edna Wallace Hopper and DeWolf Hopper in Panjandrum (1893) Panjandrum is a musical with music by Woolson Morse and words by J. Cheever Goodwin, written for and produced by the DeWolf Hopper Opera Company. It opened on May 1, 1893, at the Broadway Theatre (on 41st Street, now demolished) in New York and closed at the end of September 1893. [1]
Bharatendu Harishchandra (9 September 1850 – 6 January 1885) was an Indian poet, writer, and playwright.He authored several dramas, biographical sketches, and travel accounts with the goal of influencing public opinion.
Ramdhari Singh (23 September 1908 – 24 April 1974), known by his pen name Dinkar, was an Indian Hindi language poet, essayist, freedom fighter, patriot and academic. [1] He emerged as a poet of rebellion as a consequence of his nationalist poetry written in the days before Indian independence.
Surdas's poetry was written in a dialect of Hindi called Braj Bhasha, until then considered to be a very plebeian language, as the prevalent literary languages were either Persian or Sanskrit. His work raised the status of the Braj Bhasha from a crude language to that of a literary one.