after-dinner speaker
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He later found some success as a trainer, proved to be an especially sought after after-dinner speaker, and beamed with pride at the rise to the professional ranks of his son, Campbell.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
The last dinner in 2019 seemed to lose this confident spirit; it featured a presidential historian, Ron Chernow, as the after-dinner speaker.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2022
The latest is a delightful romp through the game's history called Golf's Life Lessons by Richard Allen, former captain of Royal Melbourne and very sharp after-dinner speaker.
From Golf Digest ● Jul. 12, 2019
The MP, newspaper editor, after-dinner speaker, chairman, hedge fund adviser and thinktank fellow is known to favour high-vis jackets and hard hats.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2017
He lives in Hampden town, and has published a book of photographs of the college through the years, which has made him much sought-after as an after-dinner speaker at the various clubs in town.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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