Word: lampson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robin Lampson, author of the recently published life of General William Gorgas entitled Death Loses a Pair of Wings, describes in a recent issue of the California Monthly (alumni magazine) his phenomenal good fortune in receiving 528 responses to a letter published in TIME, in which he requested readers who had information on General Gorgas to communicate with...
Although Britain's tallest ambassador, six-foot-four-inch Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. has spent the past four years of his diplomatic life in Egypt, until last week he put little stock in the accepted Egyptian method of removing snakes from a household. Proper procedure for this everyday occurrence is to call a professional snake charmer...
When 58-year-old Sir Miles and his second wife, beauteous, Italian-blooded, 25-year-old Lady Lampson recently found their summer villa infested with hooded cobras the ambassador determined to remove them his own way. But the native servants refused to go near the reptiles and Sir Miles's British tactics failed to chase the snakes off. Last week he admitted defeat, sent out a call for the neighborhood snake charmer...
This novel argument the Commander used in presenting to the House a bill to confer Palestine citizenship upon "oppressed European Jews" who might benefit from it. For example, according to Locker-Lampson, any European Jews now being mistreated in Austria would be enabled by this bill to assume "extraterritorial citizenship in Palestine," and they could then apply in Vienna for the aid of His Britannic Majesty's consul general...
When a vote was taken on whether the Locker-Lampson bill should be admitted to first reading, the House exactly divided 144-10-144, creating the first tie in the Mother of Parliaments since 1910. Amid laughter the Speaker, Captain Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, broke the tie by casting his vote in favor of one of the most novel pieces of jurisprudence ever introduced...