Historical clue formulations

• Gave a talking to? — 2026-08-13
• Spoke to a convention, say — 2026-05-12
• Made a grand speech — 2026-02-23
• Spoke at length — 2024-04-14
• Got on a soapbox, say — 2023-11-15
• Spoke grandly — 2023-10-17
• Held forth — 2021-04-11
• Provided an address — 2019-11-08
• Spoke on the stump — 2016-07-05
• Gave a keynote, say — 2011-08-04
• Got up on one's soapbox — 2011-06-12
• Gave a speech — 2011-05-02
• Gave out one's address? — 2010-03-19
• Said "Friends, Romans, countrymen ..." — 2009-08-09
• Held the floor — 2009-06-10
• Delivered a stemwinder — 2007-04-08
• Emulated Isocrates — 2006-07-28
• Elocuted — 2005-03-13
• Tub-thumped — 2005-03-06
• Soapboxed — 2002-01-06
• Keynoted — 2001-04-18
• Speechified — 2000-02-28
• Speechified — 1999-11-29
• Took to the stump — 1999-11-21
• Addressed a crowd — 1999-08-10
• Became a figure of speech? — 1998-05-28
• Emulated Demosthenes — 1998-03-22
• Spieled — 1998-03-12
• Spieled — 1997-01-12
• Waxed eloquent — 1995-12-31
• Gave a keynote — 1995-07-09
• Stumped — 1994-08-12
• Spoke from the soapbox — 1994-04-26