Word: incognitos
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...That I might not be accused of speaking from mere hearsay, I selected some well-posted young men to accompany me, and went incognito upon a round of investigation of the dance halls...
Somebody said immigrants were badly treated on reaching Australia. Said Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, to Lord Apsley: "Either you or I will have to go and see things for ourselves." As a day laborer at $5 a week went in strict incognito Lord Apsley, heir apparent to old Lord Bathurst, whose wife was until recently owner of The Morning Post. Last week he came back, said that immigrants were not badly treated...
Hiding one's light under a bushel, or rather under a wig, is all too rare in these unromatic and self-assertive days. The modesty of the young Haverford senior who, overburdened with honors, attired himself as a girl and attended his commencement incognito is therefore, very pleasing. He allowed his class poem to be read by a substitute while he received his degree as well as certain prizes and eulogies "in absentia," smiling appreciatively from his inconspicuous seat in the auditorium like any gushing maiden...
...safe incognito to take a fling...
Ponce de Leon had his filng in search of the isle of Bimini. In modern times science promises synthetic youth. But rejuvenation by the academic method seems the more popular way. Even Harvard has its "Old Dog" basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...