Some introductions to sermons, speeches, articles, etc., would gain if
they were made as brief as the speech of this mayor:
“Long introductions when a man has a speech to make are a
bore,” said former Senator John C. Spooner, according to _The
Saturday Evening Post_. “I have had all kinds, but the most
satisfactory one in my career was that of a German mayor of a
small town in my State, Wisconsin.
“I was to make a political address, and the opera-house was
crowded. When it came time to begin, the mayor got up.
“‘Mine friends,’ he said, ‘I have been asked to introduce
Senator Spooner, who is to make a speech, yes. Vell, I haf dit
so, und he vill now do so.’”
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=Intruders=--See INGRATITUDE.
=Intrusion=--See TRIVIAL CAUSES.