Word: clubman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Litt. D., Lampson Professor of the English Language & Literature at Yale University, Public Orator of Yale University, President of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, member of the National Institute of Arts & Letters, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, author, critic, lecturer, preacher, cheerleader,* clubman (Authors, Ends of the Earth, Fano, Pundits, Faerie Queen, Elizabethan), wrote as follows in his monthly department ("As I Like It") in Scribner's magazine for December...
Griffith Ogden Ellis, a Mason and clubman, is Senior Vice President of the Bank of Detroit. For seven years he was president of the Detroit Street Railway Commission. Another job, however, is really his most important one. He, head of the Sprague Publishing Co., has since 1908 been editor and publisher of the largest magazine for youths, the American Boy. Last week Mr. Ellis further increased his tasks by purchasing and merging with his American Boy its biggest rival, Youth's Companion...
Recently, he ended a five-year term as president of Psi Upsilon. Sugarman Babst is also lawyer, fisherman, golfer, clubman and traveler...
Died. Col. Newbold Morris, 60, able Manhattan lawyer, humanitarian, churchman, clubman; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...then a clubman much like his son at present, that the older Anthony visited Dr. Floyd Tomkins, a Philadelphia divine, and said "I have seen the Great Light. . . ." He was given a Bible class of three men. Soon he inaugurated his own movement, designed to unite the ideas of Sport and of God. In 1912 he held a formal meeting at his Philadelphia house to organize formally "Athletic Christianity," so that any Bible class in the country could become a Drexel Biddle Bible Class and utilize his scheme for keeping young persons near to the churches...