Word: lampson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tempered, silver-haired Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, Britain's handsomest Parliamentary capriphile, has been quiet since the failure of his "the-goat-is-the-poor-man's-cow" campaign last year. But last week the barrel-chested Tory M.P. was knee deep in a new crusade: overalls for ecdysiasts...
...Commander's wrath had been stirred by his discovery that there is a shortage of women factory workers and a surplus of strip-teasers. Commander Locker-Lampson heatedly bared the facts on the floor of the House of Commons. Cried he: young women should be wearing overalls to work instead of stripping undies to tease. No British stripper, said "Locker," who is 64, should be under...
Among the many people who do not like Captain Cunningham-Reid is Commander Oliver S. Locker-Lampson, M.P., who organized the Blue Shirts in 1931 to "clear out the Reds." When Britain broke relations with Russia and the Blue Shirts faded, the Commander announced that Britain had become a "vassal" of the U.S. The future looked blue, he said, unless Britain could "build up beneath her flag an Empire, currency and credit to conquer and save the world." Among the many people who do not like Commander Locker-Lampson is Captain Cunningham-Reid...
...House of Commons last week Captain Cunningham-Reid asked Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden what disability necessitated the transfer of Yugoslavia's Prince Paul from Kenya to South Africa. Before Mr. Eden could reply, Commander Locker-Lampson asked "from what medical disability was Captain Cunningham-Reid suffering when he left England in the Blitz?" Captain Cunningham-Reid warmly remarked that Commander Locker-Lampson reminded him of "a cuckoo which makes a nuisance of itself in other people's nests...
Later, in the oak-paneled lobby of the House, thick with smoke and members, Captain Cunningham-Reid blockaded Commander Locker-Lampson against the wall and shouted: "I want to know whether or not you are going to continue making these personal attacks on me. I have no objection to your attacking in the ordinary Parliamentary way, but I object to these dirty underhand personalities...