Word: incognito
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Peter Harvard Incognito...
Twenty years of age, dressed in a brown coat and grey flannels, the Harvard scion has found it a simple task to remain incognito during his excursions through the Yard and elsewhere--even during a guide trip. In every detail of appearance or manner, from his deliberately complacent way of talking to his habit of shoving both hands deeply into his pockets, he might be taken for a "typical" Harvard man. He was even indifferent about Harvard itself until the tentacles of the Tercentenary entwined him, and even now refuses to display any enthusiasm for the University...
...seized a camera from a press photographer who was snapping King Edward, His Majesty intervened. Taking the camera away from the policeman, Edward VIII handed it to the cameraman, saying with a grin, "Here, take your camera back." Trunks belonging to His Majesty were labeled inconspicuously with his incognito "Duke of Lancaster" but great capitals fully six inches high proclaimed the trunks of MRS. ERNEST SIMPSON...
...Minister Alfred Duff Cooper, who was aboard the chartered royal yacht Nahlin, kept vainly radioing ashore that the King was traveling incognito as the Duke of Lancaster. Nevertheless, the next Balkan fortress passed would blaze away a 21-gun royal salute. The Duke of Lancaster delighted during the week to slip off the Nahlin with Mrs. Simpson, she in the stern and he at the oars of a skiff...
...quitting England to cruise Balkan waters on the chartered $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin last week. His Majesty resorted not only to the usual incognito of going as "the Duke of Lancaster" but to unusual secrecy. His subjects had understood that he would leave from his royal airdrome at Windsor Great Park, gathered there in genial numbers to wish him Godspeed. Instead the King motored to a nearby private airdrome and forbade his staff to divulge the names of any of the five people who flew away with him in his royal plane, piloted by modest Edward ("Mouse") Fielden, Captain...