Word: incognito
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...central Europe, in Napoleonic times. Kaye is not the knave of Gogol's play but a good-hearted rube. A half-starved outcast from a medicine show, he is mistaken by the crooked mayor (Gene Lockhart) and his henchmen-relatives for Napoleon's feared inspector general traveling incognito. Then, hardly grown into his splendid Techncolored uniform and the hungry affections of the mayor's wife (Elsa Lanchester), Kaye becomes a cat's-paw and fall guy for the scoundrelly medicine-show boss (Walter Slezak...
Mestrovic, who now teaches at Syracuse University, added that the Yugoslav ambassador also had been urging him to return, if only for a visit. "He said that if I wished I could go incognito. But I will go to Belgrade incognito only when Tito goes to Moscow incognito...
When he reigned, Leopold had a reputation for disregarding his ministers' counsel. But at week's end he canceled his hunting junket, instead took his princess to Paris for an "incognito" holiday...
...western, and thus a considerably better-than-average movie. Victor Mature, a gunman employed by silver-mining Tycoon Albert Dekker, suspects his boss of framing his father (an Army officer court-martialed after an Indian massacre at an Arizona fort). It is fairly easy for Mature to run around incognito, since none of his law-abiding family would claim him. His ineffectual brother (Glenn Langan), hot on the same vengeful trail, is more of a headache; brother nearly bungles everything...
Niels Bohr, too, was unsure. Bohr's model of the atom (nucleus and orbit electrons) won him a Nobel Prize in 1922. He escaped from Nazi-ruled Copenhagen in 1943, and brought his precious knowledge to U.S. atom-bomb builders, with whom he worked in thin incognito as "Mr. Nicholas Baker...