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membership (iou)



membership noun. M17.
[from MEMBER noun + -SHIP.]
The condition or status of a member of a society, assembly, or Other (organized) body. (Foll. by of, (now esp. US) in.) M17.
church membership etc.
P. Grosskurth Klein was elected to full membership in the Berlin Society.
The number of members in a particular body; the body of members. M19.
Brownie Our Pack has a membership of 20 keen Brownies. Times Educational Supplement Teachers' leaders, who..were out of touch with their membership.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis (sh)




born May 30, 1901, Chicago, Ill., U.S.
died July 9, 1979, New York, N.Y.

U.S. actress and writer.

She made her stage debut in Blood and Sand (1921) with her actor-father, Otis Skinner, who also collaborated on her first play, Captain Fury (1925). In the 1930s she wrote and staged monodramas, including The Wives of Henry VIII and The Loves of Charles II. She won acclaim in such plays as Candida (1939), Lady Windermere's Fan (1946), and The Pleasure of His Company (1958), which she wrote with Samuel Taylor. She also cowrote the best-seller Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1942).