Word: isotta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enormous, regal Isotta-Fraschini is the car of two kings of tiny stature, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele and Siam's waif Praja Dhipok. In Manhattan the Isotta is sold by a son of potent Prince-Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. Sumptuous, fur-carpeted is the new Isotta-Fraschini limousine just presented by Italian admirers to Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius...
Little known is the fact that Poet-Flyer Gabriel d'Annunzio's son, Captain Ugo V. d'Annunzio, has been in the U. S. for several years representing the Isotta-Fraschini Motors, Inc. Last week Captain d'Annunzio became a director of the American Aeronautical Corp., newly organized to manufacture Italian Savoia seaplanes and flying boats in this country...
...district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed-boat king-to his list of poet, musician, soldier, aviator, orchideous Italian. When he came ashore, it was announced that his Isotta-motored* boat had attained a speed of 127 kilometres (78.9 miles) per hour, unofficially a new world's record. The fastest previously recorded speed for motorboats, made by Gar A. Wood's Miss America, in 1920, was 70 m.p.h...
...Capt. Ugo V. d'Annunzio (son of the poet) is President of Isotta Motors, Inc. of Manhattan, the U. S. agency for Isotta-Fraschini automobiles ($15,000 and upward). He, well acclimatized, is an exponent of the U. S. take-a-cake-of-yeast habit...
...north from Rio de Janiero to Jamaica, Cuba, New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago, New York. His was a "four-continent" flight, planned to give "new proof of virile national power." He flew with two comrades. His seaplane, the Santa Maria, was built at Milan, with two 550-h.p. Isotta-Fraschini motors...