W.C.T.U.

McGirr quotes Frances Willard, the W.C.T.U. president, who sometimes described her political opponents as crude invaders.

And then I turn to the “Social Activities” department, which is another countywide department and often covers a couple of pages, and look through the announcements of engagements and accounts of weddings and the announcements of births and the accounts of bridge-club meetings and garden-club meetings and book-club meetings and P.T.A. meetings and W.C.T.U. meetings and Daughters of the American Revolution meetings and United Daughters of the Confederacy meetings.

“In 95 percent of the reading matter published the cigarettes and tobacco are represented as indispensable,” said Mrs. Emile D. Martin, the W.C.T.U.’s New York County superintendent.

A woman who had been a leader of the W.C.T.U. pressed forward before the cook's demand could be considered.

Join the John Birch Society, There's so much to do; Have you heard they're serving vodka At the W.C.T.U.?