"Beware of* overdone oratory," said Miss D. West, of England, during an address at the Timaru Boys' High School recently. Miss West explained that often at political meetings at Home a dramatic speaker left himself open to smart interjections. One politician had once asked a meeting: "Do you know what I would put into coal mines?" Only to receive the reply: "Yes, windows." —(Laughter.) Another speaker's dramatic utterance had been: "What is England's greatest menace at the present time?" A wag from the rear of the hall had supplied the answer as "Don Bradman.'!—(Laughter.)
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3446, 22 March 1932, Page 4
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