Frank was good at after-dinner speeches, and now he used fragments from ones I'd heard many times before.
There are functions to attend, after-dinner speeches to be made.
And it worked because people - especially in an after-dinner speech - want to be entertained.
The result is a satirical autobiography, told in the form of an after-dinner speech.
Her after-dinner speech had little fire or even New York politics in it.
Each one has a tall, arched top that could provide a head rest during a lengthy after-dinner speech.
No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry.
Under those two gentlemen I learned to make after-dinner speeches, and it was charming.
Are they merely a version of an after-dinner speech, denoting that it is time to go home?
But you can understand why I'm not too keen on after-dinner speeches.