Word: incognito
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...Hayden investigated them carefully, sometimes in person. Once he made a surprise visit, incognito, to a camp, asked the director what he wanted most. When the director said he wanted a gasoline water pump, Mr. Hayden promptly made his wish come true by fishing out $75 in cash. Recently, he walked into the lavatory of the Burroughs Newsboy Home in Boston, emerged to announce that he would give the institution money for shower baths and new toilets...
Back to Europe tourist class on the Queen Mary, after a few months spent practically incognito in the U. S., sailed the Dame and Seigneur of Sark (Mrs. & Mr. Robert Woodward Hathaway*). Their realm: a tiny Channel island of 600 people, smallest self-governing state of the British Empire, which was chartered in 1565 by Queen Elizabeth and has never had automobiles, politics, divorces, income taxes or crime waves. Said the Dame of Sark: "The last crime trouble we had was several years ago, when a 14-year-old girl ran off with some article from a clothesline. We told...
...more than 400 guillotinings in his 40-year career; of a cold; in Paris. As well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Daladier, "Papa" Deibler was latest of a 68-year-long line of Deibler-executioners. He rarely appeared in public except in his official capacity, traveled incognito in a private compartment. Few days after his death, his 80-year-old uncle, Leopold Desfourneaux, was appointed his temporary successor, to execute one Maurice Pelorge, murderer, who had refused the traditional pardon (always offered to the first victim of a new executioner). Connoisseurs complained that Desfourneaux took...
Frau Alwine Dollfuss, widow of Austria's assassinated Chancellor, was discovered living incognito with her children, Eva, 11, and Rudi, 7, in a Welsh hamlet, waiting for American friends & relatives to arrange a refuge...
Blanche knew everybody. He was at Dieppe when it was a favorite spot for poets and painters and when Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, paid regular visits incognito (with the whole town informed) to the villa of the Duchess Caracciolo. Later on Blanche knew the great houses of London, and pays an eloquent tribute to Mary Hunter, whose wit and beauty inspired Henry James, George Moore, Rodin, Sargent and himself. One of his stories about her gives the slightly archaic flavor of his worldly revelations, which sound like something out of Proust. When Rodin was working on a bust...