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They renewed the feud by slapping their plane in the face of the winds that fly from the Atlantic over Europe and Africa. From Paris to St. Louis, Senegal, the powerful Hispano-Suiza motor flaunted a 2700-mile defiance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Satisfaction | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Perplexed, "that one is walking down the avenue--any avenue will do--and a soft purring noise is heard at one's side. Then, gentle, palpitating, irridescent, comes a voice of a young female and turning one beholds a Chrysler roadster or a Stutz roadster or even a Hispano-Suiza (although this would be very improbable). The occupant, a woman--young, comely and solitary--inquires as to whether or not one would care to ride. What is the correct action to take? I am a stranger in your city...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/2/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Automobile Salon | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Shred of Hector | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...GREEN HAT-The yellow Hispano Suiza of Michael Arlen has driven up to the stage door and unloaded all its politely worthless characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Nov. 23, 1925 | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

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