clubwoman

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Her mother was a tireless clubwoman who kept insisting that Elizabeth “do something” for the war effort but, with a baby on the way, Elizabeth felt she was doing plenty.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 10, 2018

An indefatigable clubwoman, Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren of Whiting, Ind. belongs to so many committees, pursues so varied and vigorous a round of civic activities that, as her lawyer-husband says, "It stuns me."

From Time Magazine Archive

He dismisses such suggestions with the same scorn that he once made use of when a clubwoman asked him what butterflies were for.

From Time Magazine Archive

One clubwoman, however, believed that the tree on which Judas hanged himself was no tree for Oklahoma.

From Time Magazine Archive

While she reveled in society, she was essentially a clubwoman, and nothing delighted her so much as debating and delivering addresses.

From I Spy by Lincoln, Natalie Sumner