Word: incognito
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...name and sometimes used the name James Kelly. Six months later, Judy Granberg met her husband in London and stayed with him at an elegant hotel. Then Granberg, investigators believe, returned to New York with his wife. Deftly drawing on the skills he learned as an investigator, Granberg remained incognito by moving periodically and using a series of assumed names and different cars. He would live for weeks or months at a time in various motels in New York, Texas and Florida, joined for stints by his wife and children, who would register under the name of Brent and stay...
...guests are an eclectic lot, including honeymooners and people celebrating anniversaries, an incognito celebrity or two and the occasional businessman. Says Judy Scott, manager of San Francisco's Washington Square Inn: "People who stay at B & Bs should be very independent and the sort who seek things out for themselves...
...whichever comes first." Like Ann, who pioneered the use of expert advice in her column, Sister Abby refers many readers to psychologists, clerics and other specialized counselors-but never before investigating the service. A former World War II Red Cross aide, she has donned a blond wig to visit, incognito, a Gamblers Anonymous meeting in New Jersey, a suicide prevention center in Los Angeles, even a Masters and Johnson clinic in St. Louis. Says she: "I learn more from my mail than a gerontologist can in an average practice...
...self-righteous Pentheus denies that Dionysus is the son of Zeus and vows to wipe out his followers in Thebes. Dionysus appears incognito, and a chorus of Asian-women converts hymn the beatific peace of serving the god of joy. Pentheus claps Dionysus in irons. The god miraculously escapes. Despite the politic advice of his sage grandfather Cadmus (Philip Bosco), the blind seer Tiresias (Tom Klunis) and Dionysus' chillingly prophetic warnings, Pentheus speeds to his appointed doom...
Much of the buying was coming from oil-rich Arabs, who were trading incognito through German and Swiss banks and brokers. Like goldbugs everywhere, the Middle Eastern investors were anxious over political uncertainties, global inflation and the fluctuating fortunes of the dollar, though it had dropped only slightly by week's end. European investors as well were eagerly acquiring gold because energy-induced inflation has been weakening the value of even their own "hard" currencies. A binge of panic buying by Southeast Asian investors, worried about reports of heightened tensions between China and Viet Nam, further pushed up demand...