Word: suiza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other European cars on exhibit included: (French) Hispano-Suiza, Renault, Delange, Citroen, Voisin, Panhard; (English) Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Sunbeam, Bean, Wolsey, Humber; (Belgian) Minerva; (Italian) Isotta-Fraschini, Ansaldo ; (German) Maybach, Mercedes, Rumpler, Benz...
Little did these two men look like the two first tennis players of the world as they lobbed and patted the ball at each other. Lacoste, whose father is director of the famed Hispano-Suiza Motor Co., seemed barely able to keep open his night-club eyes. Borotra leaped for the net, strained, caracoled, grimaced, and wagged his jaunty head-to no avail. Lacoste's precision was too much for him. In the first and third sets Borotra took the lead by breaking through his friend's service; but Lacoste's lobs were too accurate, Lacoste...
...GREEN HAT-The yellow Hispano Suiza of Michael Arlen has driven up to the stage door and unloaded all its politely worthless characters...
...this irreverent age of the insubordinate younger generation, the heroic example of one Edda, daughter of Mussolini who would not stir her little toe without her father's consent, smells sweeter than garlic in this naughty world. To complete the incident of her temptation, picture now one Hispano-Suiza whining to be thrown into high gear, an overpoweringly handsome member of the Black Hand or perhaps the Black Shirt Club, and a glorious Italian moon, that is as glorious a moon as moons in Italy may be. But Edda was not seduced by the promise of a wild ride behind...
...latest demonstration-and expansion-of this ratio was given last week. Adjutant Bonnet of the French Army, after months of preparation, climbed into a machine motored with a 450-h.p. Hispano Suiza, soared aloft, cometed down at 448 kilos, an hour (280 mi.) to a three-kilometer track near Paris, and won back to France the world's air-speed record, held by the U. S. since 1922. Like Lieut. Williams, U. S. N., who set the last world's record in 1923 at Dayton, Ohio, Adjutant Bonnet flew his course twice each way to establish an average...