After-Dinner

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Cory Booker: Mayor or After-Dinner Speaker? Dan 2007

[5] The After-Dinner had won a gold medal at the previous Salon.

The Born Rebel Artist Golding, John 2008

An After-Dinner at Ornans shows his father and three family friends in the kitchen of one of them, Urbain Cuenot; another friend, Alphonse Promayet, entertains the small group on his fiddle.

The Born Rebel Artist Golding, John 2008

If the figures of the After-Dinner emerge out of the shadows, the faces of the personalities here emerge from above the black of their garments.

The Born Rebel Artist Golding, John 2008

ATTRIBUTION: MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens), “After-Dinner Speech, ” Sketches, New and Old (vol. 19 of The Writings of Mark Twain), p. 235 (1875).

Mark Twain (1835-1910) 1989

From "After-Dinner and Other Speeches," with the permission of the author.

Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter

I feel an unwonted embarrassment in speaking to you to-night, first because the light After-Dinner View of Life, which is my theme on your program, is far from being serious enough, and I must totally abandon my plan and speak entirely extemporaneously, although upon a subject in which I have an old and strong interest.

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

After Herman made this goshawful Hit with the Souses he became convinced that he was an After-Dinner Wit.

Knocking the Neighbors George Ade 1905

Naturally the transcendental movement struck him on its ludicrous side, and in his _After-Dinner Poem_, read at the Phi Beta Kappa dinner at Cambridge in 1843, he had his laugh at the "Orphic odes" and "runes" of the bedlamite seer and bard of mystery

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

_After-Dinner Poem_, read at the Phi Beta Kappa dinner at Cambridge in

Initial Studies in American Letters 1886