W.C.T.U.

American  

abbreviation

1. Women's Christian Temperance Union.

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Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker

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.

From The New Yorker

“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.

From New York Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

Margaret Truman, who even at champagne parties prefers ginger ale or fruit juice, got her reward: a paid-up life membership in the W.C.T.U.

From Time Magazine Archive