Word: lampson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his chest expanding under a livid blue shirt Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, patriotic Conservative M. P., proudly surveyed last week 20,000 seething, applauding Britons whom he had summoned to London's mammoth Albert Hall...
...wore blue enameled cufflinks with the same motto in their blue cuffs. Outside Albert Hall waited several swank blue motor cars with the radiator emblem Fear God! Fear Naught! The blue blood of the British ruling class was up?this was the charter mass-meeting of Commander Locker-Lampson's blue-shirted "Sentinels of Empire," founded "to peacefully fight Bolshevism and clear out the Reds...
This lyric was personally composed by Commander Locker-Lampson, son of English poet Frederick Locker, maternal grandson of the late Sir Curtis Lampson, Bart., a Vermonter, said to have been the first American ever made a British baronet. The music for Commander Locker-Lampson's patriotic song March On! is from the British Gaumont talking film High Treason...
Stirring speeches at the mass meeting were made by Rear-Admiral Murray Eraser Sueter, M. P., and Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft. M. P., as well as by Commander Locker-Lampson, M. P. Cards printed as follows were distributed: "Do you approve of the use of Fear God! Fear Naught! as our motto? . . . the use of March On as our battle song? . . . the use of a distinctive color...
...present at the meeting he held there, and this statement is not so. It is true that there were rumors of disturbance before the meeting. On the afternoon of it the Student Council posted signs about the campus urging fair play. This was observed. The meeting began in Lampson Lyceum. Jordan entered with Professor William Lyon Phelps who courageously had promised to introduce him. As they mounted the platform, Mr. Phelps said (with pardonable nervousness), "We who are about to die, salute you."* This mollified the dogs of war, and Jordan began his speech. The crowding in the hall...