Word: suiza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Skoda Eight ($8,000), made by the notorious old Skoda munitions plant, once the chief arsenal of Imperial Austria and still suspected of supplying arms to China. Czechoslovakia has bought the right to manufacture a lighter model of the internationally famed Hispano-Suiza Eight ($12,000). "Unless we raise our tariff against American automobiles," concluded M. Novak, "I fear that at least 20,000 workers in our new automotive Infant Industry will soon be out of their jobs." The Czechoslovak tariff on foreign motors is already 40% to 42%. The five U. S. makes which led, last year, in exports...
...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...
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...
Enter the solver of the murders, Philo Vance. He smokes expensive, heady cigarets. He drawls, diverts, digresses. He likes Chinese water colors and all manner of arty things. He drives his own Hispano-Suiza when he is thinking fast. He works with, but often annoys, the police. Finally, he gets the murderer by applying the theory that a painting is a greater work of skill than a photograph. Shrewd readers should be able to spot the murderer on page 330; average readers on page 339; stupid readers on page...