Word: incognitos
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...ghost-like Harvard graduate has remained incognito to all Harvard officials, including Director of Athletics William J. Bingham '16, for over a decade. Bingham has corresponded with the unknown, philanthropist through the trust officer of the First National Bank of Boston, but has never learned the name of Harvard's great swimming patron...
...Minister from Bolivia has dissolved-probably in the interests of hemisphere solidarity-into an Italian envoy. Poor Poppy Smith (Gene Tierney), highborn, incognito daughter of English Sir Guy Charteris (Walter Huston), has lost many of her vices; she doesn't even smoke opium. Lush Victor Mature, the poor man's Boyer, cast in a role replacing the original Prince Oshima, Poppy's Japanese traducer, is now Dr. (of nothing) Omar, a befezzed, leering, Levantine heel...
After Miss Ferber has warmed the pair up around New Orleans of the early '80s, she takes them North to Saratoga's United States Hotel. There, as the Comtesse de Trenaunay de Chanfret (incognito), Clio sets the town by its ears. She breakfasts at six in the stables, eats potato chips outdoors, sets other new styles. She also sets her cap and her talons for railroad multimillionaire Bart Van Steed, the most eligible bachelor in the Western Hemisphere...
...Clippers have ever carried. Hollywood's No. 1 private, Jimmy Stewart, was promoted to corporal. Heywood Hale Broun passed his physical exam, expected induction within a month. Robert P. Patterson Jr., son of the Under Secretary of War (see p. 28), turned up at Springfield Armory Arsenal working incognito as a machinist. J. P. Morgan gave Bundles for Britain the furnishings of the yacht Corsair IV, which is now in war service. Bundles will sell them for cash...
...night last week, almost two years to the minute since he made his radio debut, Lord Haw-Haw began his broadcast with the words: "I, William Joyce. . . ." If his father's death had anything to do with his decision to abandon his incognito, he did not say so. Instead, he explained that he had dropped it to answer a series of London newspaper stories calling him a common spy. Said his indignant Lordship: "All these imputations I disregard as garbage...