Word: hispano
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...most conspicuous romanticists of this epoch. Each knows how to invest emotions with the glamor dear to reveries although not found in life. Director Clarence Brown has made the most of tremendous box-office possibilities by sticking closely to the original novel. Best shot: Greta Garbo driving an Hispano-Suiza...
Said Lieutenant Primo de Rivera, after confirming the announcement that he comes to found an Hispano-U.S. tourist bureau (TIME...
Last week when the season opened, Lauri-Volpi sang Rhadames in Aida. The smart citizens of Buenos Aires cheered the performance; one fat dealer in sheep's wool as he got into his Hispano-Suiza was heard to gurgle his approval in unquotable terms...
...cars were an American-built Stutz, owned by F. E. Moskovics, president of the Stutz Motor Car Co., and a French-made Hispano-Suiza, owned by Charles T. Weymann, famed motor car body designer and sportsman. Both were stock cars. The race was the result of an argument between Mr. Moskovics and Mr. Weymann, each backing his belief with a $25,000 wager...
Well in the lead now, the French car slackened its pace slightly. Twelve hours later, the exhausted mechanics pronounced the task hopeless; the Hispano was flagged down to receive the news that the Stutz had been forced to withdraw. The foreign invader had traveled 1,357½ miles in 17 hours, 21 minutes, maintaining an average speed of 70.14 miles per hour. The old stock car record, made last October at Atlantic City by a Studebaker, of 1,814.96 miles in 24 hours, with an average of 75.6 miles per hour, remained unbroken...