clubman
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clubmen
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If possible I would prefer something by a fervent materialist about a wealthy clubman and a dark apachess—or something about love.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
But times are changing, and curbside hailing may soon be as quaint a relic of old London as the clubman striding through Mayfair in his bowler hat and boutonniere.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2014
Port Talbot Town stalwart Leigh De-Vulgt was voted the Welsh Premier clubman of the year, and Bryn Powell and Peter Nicholas won the FAW merit award.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2013
The carriage trade of Beverly Hills, Calif, was greatly taken with Mr. Maurice Monte Reingold, the fashionable jeweler and clubman.
From Time Magazine Archive
Must be used in a story about a prominent clubman, q.v. as above.
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
In recent days, Rangers have been pumping out videos of great clubmen of the past talking about the importance of good fan behaviour in Seville.
From BBC ● May 17, 2022
The plummy clubmen, the young wastrels in spats and waistcoat, the shockable aunts, the frosty butler belong in a diorama at the Museum of Natural History, not onstage.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was Joel D. Kerper who peddled drinkables to prominent Philadelphia clubmen & tycoons.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the insistence of an audience which refused to be put off, the clubmen went on with their show, scored a smashing hit with their trousered chorus "girls," stubble-chinned "leading ladies," undisguised blond "Spaniards."
From Time Magazine Archive
At first the clubmen rather wondered at him.
From Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray
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