Word: incognitos
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...Next day the Mayor arrived, only half an hour late, at the Unknown Solider's Tomb. "I should have preferred," he told General Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, "to come to Paris incognito to decipher the soul of the city." "You incognito! Impossible!" said General Gouraud...
...Munich, on his incognito arrival, he said to reporters: "In the words of the popular American song, 'Please go away and let me sleep.'" Later, on emerging from the Hofbrauhaus (brewery) he remarked: "I am having my first real rest in Germany." On leaving Munich, in a speech to reporters, he stated that "The German people . . . have a great future before them...
...Count, who had thus far preserved a complete incognito in Berlin, said snappishly to reporters: "I am not active politically at present...
Oberlin College, a Congregational co-educational institution in Oberlin, Ohio, last week invited a stranger to come within its gates. Incognito, he inspected the campus with Mrs. Katherine Wright Haskell,* one of Oberlin's trustees. Next day, having returned to Chicago and consulted his wife, he telegraphed his acceptance of the presidency of Oberlin. He is the first non-theologian to hold this office. His name and accomplishments: Dr. Ernest Hatch Wilkins, 46, professor of romance languages at the University of Chicago since 1916, War-time teacher of French to doughboys, author of Army French as well as Dante...
...Under an assumed title, he marries the Princess of the Land, thus employing the relatively novel device of double incognito...