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Single-Speech Hamilton
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English
Etymology
In reference to his maiden speech, delivered on 13 November 1755, during the debate on the address, which excited Horace Walpole’s admiration and was generally supposed to have been his only effort in the House of Commons.
Proper noun
Single-Speech Hamilton
en informal en Q8009826.
1892 June Friendship’s League, Offensive and Defensive https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1892/06/friendships-league-offensive-and-defensive/635084/ After his quarrel with Single-Speech Hamilton he Edmund Burke writes: “I shall never, therefore, look upon those who, after hearing the whole story, do not think me perfectly in the right, and do not consider Hamilton an infamous scoundrel, to be in the smallest degree my friends, or even to be persons for whom I am bound to have the slightest esteem, as fair and just estimators of the characters and conduct of men.”
8 December 1918 James Gibbons Huneker Concerning Calico Cats https://www.nytimes.com/1918/12/08/archives/concerning-calico-cats-by-james-gibbons-huneker.html Pietro Mascagni, the Single-Speech Hamilton of Italian composers, cried aloud in resentment that a critic was only a “it compositore mancato.”
16 July 1925 Poetry on the North Shore https://www.nytimes.com/1925/07/16/archives/poetry-on-the-north-shore.html ALVIN TUFTS FULLER must step on the gas. He must have heard of Single-Speech HAMILTON. Surely, when millions have hailed him as the newest and strongest hope of our literature, he won’t disappoint our eager expectation; he won’t be content to be known as Single-Poem FULLER. If he will enlarge his output, he will speedily outclass that old Amesbury outfit.