toastmaster
Americannoun
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a person who presides at a dinner and introduces the after-dinner speakers.
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a person who proposes or announces toasts.
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Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Here's your chance," Toastmaster George Murphy told the 2,000 diners at the Washington Hilton, "to sit in the presence of the next President of the U.S."
From Time Magazine Archive
Toastmaster division of McGraw Electric Co., a longtime staunch defender of price fixing, discontinued enforcement in Michigan, thus chose the course taken there by General Electric weeks earlier.
From Time Magazine Archive
Toastmaster Dick Thornburg, editor of the Cincinnati Post, struck the keynote by calling Howard "the greatest newspaperman ever to come out of Gano, Ohio, population 37."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Toastmaster and Ladies and Gentlemen," said the famous raconteur as he arose, "Before this dinner Mark Twain and myself made an agreement to trade speeches.
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)
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