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...Hours to Live (Fox). The hero of this picture is cinema's most extraordinary corpse, Captain Paul Onslow, the head diplomat of a country called Sylvaria, who has been strangled by his political opponents. One of those loose-lipped scientists who exist only in countries like Sylvaria takes a quick look at Captain Onslow's cadaver and says that he can revivify it, for six hours. He does so with a display of electricity and a large glass barrel...
...Jacksonville, N. C., a depositor lugged 120 Ib. of cash to the Bank of Onslow. Cashier James Collins spent two days counting $800 in coins smaller than 25¢ pieces...
...states. The largest is Kruger National Park, five million acres stretching from Johannesburg east to Portuguese East Africa. The building of roads in British territory since the Boer War has made hunting from the back seat of an automobile too easy, has made it imperative that the Earl of Onslow, president of England's Society for Preserving the Fauna of the Empire set aside territories where hunters may not shoot. Belgium's largest reservation is Albert Park in the Congo, established through efforts of the late Carl Akeley...
Recently this state of affairs was stigmatized as "intolerable!" by peppery Baron Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer of Messines and of Bilton, who has been British High Commissioner to Palestine since 1925. He prescribed a remedy: more British troops. He had tested his prescriptions in 1918-19, when, with the rank of Field Marshal, he commanded the Second British Army occupying the German Rhineland. Methods which reduced Germans to submission ought to be good for Arabs...
Statesmen. Among the famed statesmen noted at Geneva: Richard William Alan Onslow, Earl of Onslow, calm and ponderous. Next to him was observed his boss, natty Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Minister...