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  • The successful after-dinner, or after-luncheon speaker usually has a light-hearted approach to his topic or, if his subject is a serious one, he can at least resort to the time-honoured custom of the introductory joke or two to warm up the listeners.

    Heart Disease: The Modern Plague 1980

  • I thank you very much for your kindness in listening to me and I feel I ought to apologize for not having given you something better for after-luncheon digestion than these random reminiscences.

    Forty Years in the British House of Commons 1952

  • The sleigh was at the door, so also was Captain Du Meresq, smoking an after-luncheon cigar.

    Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

  • Parker announced gaily to a group of her friends gathered for an after-luncheon conference on the Westcott piazza.

    Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde

  • With dinner comes Lady Esmondet, Trevalyon not having returned it is a _tete-a-tete_ affair; afterwards in the salons, the conversation drifts from fair Italia, the after-luncheon visitors, and the London _Times_ to Lionel.

    A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

  • The after-luncheon roll is of course the busy City man's substitute for the leisured club-man's after-luncheon nap.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 Various

  • If I may say so, I accepted it with considerable diffidence for I am no after-luncheon speaker.

    Training Britain's Youth 1939

  • That is a very wonderful theme to have to talk about in a forty minute after-luncheon speech.

    Canada and a United Empire 1937

  • I know, as everyone else knows, statistics thrown into any after-luncheon audience are likely to lie there and suffer with the audience.

    The Prolongation of Life 1937

  • At about the time when Sam Marlowe was having the momentous interview with his father, described in the last chapter, Mr. Rufus Bennett woke from an after-luncheon nap in Mr.. Hignett's delightful old-world mansion, Windles, in the county of Hampshire.

    Three Men and a Maid 1928

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