Word: moto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tricky Mr. Moto. The Jap, who is variously "Mr. Moto," "Tojo," "Charlie" or "the Japanzy" to U.S. troops, was beginning to show a heavy preference for night movement, when concealment is best...
...Moto got the bounce "for the duration" from his creator, Pulitzer Prizewinner John P. Marquand, who commented: "I rather liked him....But now it seems I had him all wrong. A veritable wolf in sheep's clothing...
...brought Marquand enough money so that he could try his hand at more serious fiction. But thanks to that rigorous training, his serious books are 1) far easier reading than literature needs to be, 2) almost as profitable as the serialized adventures of his Japanese sleuth, Mr. Moto...
...Moto Takes a Vacation (Twentieth Century-Fox), but it is a busman's holiday. Detective Moto (Peter Lorre) convoys a much-coveted bauble on a voyage from Honolulu to San Francisco, spends most of the time tossing red herring back into a sea of circumstance...
Largest scootermaker is Moto-Skoot Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, which sold 4,500 two-and three-wheelers last year, expects to sell 10,000 in 1939. Head of Moto-Skoot is 27-year-old Norman A. Siegal, who used to race Fronty-Fords on the dirt track circuit, decided three years ago that there was more money to be made in slower transportation. Racer Siegal sold his share in a Chicago Loop garage for $1,090 in 1936, hired three workmen, and in a corner of a West Side factory began making Moto-Skoots. By the end of the year...