Check on Oratory
There was a delicate irony in tho i situation at a public dinner in London recently, when the Minister of Trans* ' port, Mr. Morrison, narrowly escaped , being held up by a new talk-control machine, says the Sunday Times. This contrivance, after a speaker has been on his feet for an agreed time, 'intimates by a red light that it is time for him to sit down again. It looks as if the long speech were doomed. No more will the gentleman “unaccustomed to public speaking” ins . on proctising for half an hour. No more shall wo listen with sot faces to the story about tho Aberdonian and tho tag from Horace. It only remains to devise a machine by which the tenor of the speech could be regulated. Why not a hooter to warn him against an imminent chestnut, a siren deploring inaudibility, and a maroon to indicate that, like Queen Victoria, the audience is not amused T
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6520, 8 April 1931, Page 2
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161Check on Oratory Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6520, 8 April 1931, Page 2
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