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Word: incognito (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Westerner" is conventional, but so noisily and wholeheartedly as to be outright refreshing. Walter Brennan's superb acting as "The Law West of the Pecos" lends an undercurrent of profundity to all the merry, Western violence. The plot between the shootings is supplied by the Judge's incognito love for Lily Langtree, the actress, and by the romance between a handsome saddlebum (Gray Cooper) and a homesteader's daughter (Doris Davenport, unfortunately). From character play and comedy the picture finally sinks into old fashioned melodrama, and ends up on a note of social significance to remind you that everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...gadgeteer. Once he fixed a radio after an expert had tinkered in vain eight hours. He wins photographic contests, chats over the radio incognito, and is often to be seen testing the country's roads in the saddle of a motorcycle. When he finds a bumpy stretch, he gives the local boss holy hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Sixty-two and Nine | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...Governor General of Italian East Africa is the ablest member of the Royal Family, Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, first cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele. Into his 42 years this dynamic Duke has packed a great deal of colonial service and fighting in Tripoli, the Sahara, Ethiopia, incognito in the Belgian Congo. Lean and tall, he is a veteran of artillery, camel cavalry, a general of the Italian Air Fleet. Against the strong but supply-vulnerable Italian forces in the Duke's domain, Britain planned not a campaign of forcible dislodgment but one of attrition from without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Bush Battles | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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