Word: bancour
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...repeatedly French representative before the League of Nations, known because of his silver tongue as "The Socialist Demosthenes," several times retained as an attorney by the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania. For an hour the statesman-lawyer and the onetime prince laid their heads together. Then M. Paul-Bancour instituted suit for libel in behalf of his new client against the producers of The Merry Widow. To newsgatherers M. Danilo explained passionately: "There is a 'Prince Danilo' in that film. . . . Gentlemen, I am Prince Danilo. There is no other! ... I am unspeakably pained to see myself travestied...
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