While May was giving her speech outside Downing Street, shell-shocked EU staff were hosting a panel discussion on Brexit around the corner at the former Tory party central office in Smith Square, which now serves as the representative office in London.
It turned out she had been practicing by standing out in the open prairie, giving her speech while her husband sat in a buggy, backing farther and farther away and yelling "Louder!" Here's to you, Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins.
While giving her floor speech on behalf of reauthorizing benefits, she said, the experience came rushing back to her. "Today, I'm on the floor, and this is like a gazillion years ago, and I'm on the floor choking up just thinking about it," she said.
LOS ANGELES — When the jeweler Irene Neuwirth lent the actress Octavia Spencer a pair of earrings to wear at the Golden Globes award ceremony in Hollywood on Jan . 15 the payback was instantaneous: "They sold while she was giving her acceptance speech," Ms. Neuwirth said.
And while Clinton was giving her victory speech in Florida Tuesday night, Sanders spoke for an hour at a rally in Arizona, which votes next week.
Congressional Republicans have spent much of the last decade voting for tax cuts and spending increases, all the while giving speeches decrying the deficit.
That is real commitment!" Ms. Theron, statuesque in a plunging black-and-white dress, demanded that Mr. Oswalt stay onstage with her while she gave her acceptance speech.
But it also isn't: Weiner recounts in excruciating detail the slights of her childhood and young adult years, and in hilarious detail her family's road trips, her cousin's closet, her outfit while giving a speech about Princeton's infamous eating clubs and even the setting in which she lost her virginity.
Two and a half years after her father's death, while giving a speech in his honor, Hustvedt began to shake uncontrollably.
Queen Elizabeth showed off her cheeky sense of humor while giving a sweet speech about her son, Prince Charles, turning 70.
