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

John Lane Hancock, elderly Mrs. Logan is not only an active art patron, an avid clubwoman, but a poet.

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

She loved her work for clubs, and you will remember that she had several business enterprises connected with them, during the years that she was an active clubwoman.

From Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" by Various