Word: privateering
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...call upon Maurice Privat recently went a close friend of the astrologer who happens to be the same sort of journalist-investigator he once was. Soon Privat was volubly discussing his new profession...
...Paris the astonishing feats of political tightrope-walking, by which Pierre Laval last week had maintained himself as Premier of France for seven months, have gradually focused fascinated interest upon M. Maurice Privat...
Reporters see this little man in horn spectacles waddle through the great iron gates of the Quai d'Orsay and up to the Premier's state apartments several times each week. Although known principally today as Paris' No. 1 Astrologer, M. Privat has behind him many years of working journalism. He is the author of a fat stack of works comprising his investigations of celebrated judicial cases, exotic crimes and the lives of statesmen he knew as a reporter. The incredible report which much of Paris now avidly believes is that Astrologer Privat assists Premier Laval from...
...University Hall revealed yesterday. Professor Elisseeff came to Harvard in 1932 as lecturer on Chinese and Japanese. During the present academic year he is in Paris as Director of Studies in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. A graduate of the University of Tokio, he served in 1916 as Privat-Dozent at Petrograd Imperial University, and in 1917 as Professor in the Institute for the History of Foreign Affairs in Petrograd. From 1921 to 1929 he was the interpreter in the Imperial Embassy in Paris...
...became Privat Docent in the University of Petrograd, but in the following year, owing to the Revolution, he discontinued his teaching and engaged in political activities. He held several important posts under the Kerensky regime, including those of secretary to the prime minister, and member of the council of the Russian Republic...