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Nearly Famous: Adventures of an
After-
Dinner Speaker
In Nearly Famous, The Cat writes hilariously of the many famous people he has worked with - everyone from Colin Cowdrey, Bobby Robson and Terry Venables to Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Billy Connolly, Eric Morcambe and Brian Johnston - and ...
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Nearly Famous: Adventures of an
After-
Dinner Speaker
Whether you're a sports fan or not, this book is guaranteed to leave you feeling a good deal more cheerful than you were when you picked it up.
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Stories and Toasts for
After Dinner
As the value of the story depends upon conditions, including environment, as well as upon the quality of the story - itself, and as neither conditions nor environment can be anticipated, the author has not classified the stories.
Nathaniel C. Fowler, 2007
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The Worth of the Individual, the Value of Work, and the ...
It is an honor to be invited to be your after-dinner speaker at this Interstate Hi-Y
Conference. As a youth I often wondered what an after-dinner speaker was really
after. Soon it became obvious to me: he is after dinner. Speaking of the ...
A slight occasion such as an after-dinner speech is unsuitable for heavy
preparation, and while an after-dinner speaker should go prepared1, he should
endeavour to adjust himself to the atmosphere of the gathering. For a serious
occasion a ...
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Understanding the New US Defense Policy Through the Speeches ...
There's another example of this and it was passed along to me by Bob Strauss a
number of years ago and it was the story of a long-winded after- dinner speaker.
There'd been a long reception and lots of cocktails and then lots of wine with ...
Robert Michael Gates, 2008
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Exploratory Vision: The Active Eye
... time I had been asked to be an after dinner speaker. I only discovered this the
night before I spoke. After dinner speaking is usually assigned to someone good
at telling jokes. Well, I know only two, neither really good. Surely, I was not asked
...
Michael S. Landy, Laurence T. Maloney, Misha Pavel, 1995
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Among the Humorists and
After Dinner Speakers Part Two
The volume includes works by: Henry Wallace Phillips, Stella Wynne Herron, Helen Green, Hashimura Togo (Wallace Irwin), Edwin Lefevre, Florence M. Kingsley, Will E. Lewis, Grayson M.P. Murphy, John Kendrick Bangs, Gelett Burgess, Adele ...
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Speeches; Their Preparation and Their Delivery
Too often, indeed, the after-dinner speaker in his address suits his own
convenience or desires in determining a topic, rather than the preference of his
audience. The result of such an error is necessarily unpleasant. The [49 3
Chapter VI ...
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Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the ...
2 He felt a nationalist pride in Deakin, who proved particularly impressive in the
challenging role of after-dinner speaker. At the Pilgrims' Dinner, he was preceded
by the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, who 'in his curt, clear, incisive, ...
Desley Deacon, Joy Damousi, 2007
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Jimmy Greaves appeal launched for £30000 to help him recover …
... his addiction, Greaves eventually stopped drinking and reinvented himself as a sports pundit, newspaper columnist and after-dinner speaker. «Daily Mail, 七月 15»
St. John: Jubilee on Coast? Give me a shout
I have been a guest at the Grand Hotel several times when companies and conventions have booked me as an after-dinner speaker. I always ... «Hattiesburg American, 七月 15»
Jubilee in Mississippi
I have been a guest at the Grand Hotel several times when companies and conventions have booked me as an after-dinner speaker. I always ... «Meridian Star, 七月 15»
Community remembers Jarvis, his contributions
... an ever-willing and popular master of ceremonies and after-dinner speaker, and a business success who loved Brownwood. He was a proud ... «Brownwood Bulletin, 七月 15»
When the jubilee starts jumping, give me a call
I have been a guest at the Grand Hotel several times when companies and conventions have booked me as an after-dinner speaker. I always ... «Jackson Clarion Ledger, 六月 15»
England's Jimmy Greaves' wife Irene speaks out following …
... his addiction, Greaves eventually stopped drinking and reinvented himself as a sports pundit, newspaper columnist and after-dinner speaker. «Daily Mail, 六月 15»
Mark Story: From an eyewitness, the truth about Bear Bryant and …
"Rupp was a great after-dinner speaker," Yessin said. "When I was in graduate school, he got me out of school and I drove him. We started in ... «Lexington Herald Leader, 六月 15»
A winner of Peterborough Telegraph Business Awards urges …
... gala dinner at the Peterborough Arena on November 20 and hosted by Melvyn Prior with a celebrity high-profile after-dinner speaker. To take ... «Peterborough Telegraph, 六月 15»
Fox Sports' Joe Buck on fatherhood and being the son of a Hall of …
He was the greatest after-dinner speaker I ever heard. He could connect with the crowd and say the right thing at the right time. He loved having ... «LA Daily News, 六月 15»
THE GUIDE INTERVIEW: School's out with Weymouth-bound best …
Gervase Phinn – comedian, author, poet, broadcaster, lecturer, educational guru, after-dinner speaker and “born raconteur” (The Guardian) - is ... «Dorset Echo, 六月 15»
