Word: incognito
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...President's one budget of unqualifiedly good news came from the smiling faces of Roosevelts, of his son James who had flown to meet him, of his wife Eleanor who had just completed several weeks of incognito motoring through the Pacific States. She had secretly spent five days at Pyramid Lake, Nev. and was able to report that Daughter Anna was well, had successfully got her divorce with a minimum of publicity, that his grandchildren, "Sistie" and "Buzzie", were happily seeing the Chicago Fair with "Popsie" Dall...
...cannot be said that the young Curie-Joliots discovered neutrons, elusive, electrically inert particles 1,845 times as heavy as electrons. Neutrons were produced incognito by them and other researchers. Dr. James Chadwick of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory first proclaimed neutrons for what they were (TIME, March 7, 1932). The Curie-Joliot work on radiation was a stout prop for Dr. Chadwick, and his proclamation was confirmed by the French couple who experimentally showed that neutrons behaved as only electrically dead particles could (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Hailed in every physical journal...
...Scouts in the former Royal Hunting Preserves 17 miles from Budapest. On one of the steamers, completely unnoticed by 100 U. S. Scouts keen at spotting the peculiarities of birds, trees and beetles, was an elderly Briton. The old man in mufti who kept the secret of his incognito was "B.-P.," beloved Lieut.-General Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell, 76, founder of the Boy Scouts in 1908 and Chief Scout of the World. When he stepped spryly off the steamer, hailed by Hungarian Scouts who had been forewarned. Lord Baden-Powell was sped to a more than regal abode...
...Princess Ingrid thought she would have a look at the World Monetary & Economic Conference. She went to the brand new white stone edifice with imposing classic columns which was built as London's Geological Museum but converted just before completion to house the Conference (TIME, June 19). Entering incognito, Her Royal Highness poked about. She found most of the committee rooms empty, a few bored statesmen arguing in others. Taken in tow by a Conference doorman she was led to what is eventually to be the Museum's Great Hall of Fossils. "This is the Conference, miss," said...
...attic on $5 a week. . . cooking his own meals . . . beginning life all over again, only at the wrong end." When comparative strangers began to telephone with offers of alms Mr. Insull, whose pensions from utility companies which he once ruled total $18,000 a year, decided to end his incognito. To newsmen he snorted: "The very idea! Cooking my own meals! Why, I could not fry an egg! Not even the much abused American tabloid has ever served me in such fashion. I would call this going...