Word: incognito
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...Excellency is a voluble and charming conversationalist, a good friend of the U.S. In Washington he was travelling "incognito, as a private citizen." (He complained that he could not buy new shoes; he had no coupon.) But when he saw President Roosevelt, Rafael Larco Herrera presumably stepped into one of his gaudier personalities...
Before the delegates stood the man called Drug Tito. He heard them acclaim him Marshal of Yugoslavia, the first in history. Now he could drop his incognito, step forth officially as Josip Broz, Croatian metalworker, Communist labor leader and fighter for Loyalist Spain against Francisco Franco. The new Marshal's first act: substitution of the conventional army salute for the Partisans' greeting-the clenched fist...
...coach-&-fours with Negro outriders. Then Chesapeake & Ohio built its main line past the resort. Three U.S. Presidents (Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore) had their summer White House at White Sulphur: 13 visited there. In 1860, the gay Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) came to The White incognito. Fifty-nine years later, his playboy grandson, the Prince of Wales who was to become Edward VIII, repeated the visit...
Both the pact and the agreement had been accomplished during the incognito travels of a man known in London as "Mr. Smith," in Washington as "Mr. Brown." He was the Soviet Union's affable, square-dome Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, who reached London...
Because of censorship nothing was printed at the time about Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov's historic, incognito visit to England. TIME'S Correspondents Stephen & Lael Laird, cabled this description of the visit from London last week...