after-luncheon

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