Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because he could not afford better. "I was the companion of seamen, chimney-sweeps and thieves," says he, "not without a touch of swagger." To his disreputable drunken intimates of bars and "howffs", he was known as "velvet-coat," and amongst them he sowed his wild oats with a generous hand. He was socially ostracised. Victorian smugness turned on him a discreet back...
After a cursory view of TIME's summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...
After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...
After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...
...loss of his early romantic character, typified by the shedding of his hair, lost for him the fickle favor of his people. And the accession of financial, and, therefore, of political strength, through the marriage of his daughter to the American millionaire Leeds, has been counterbalanced by the generous openhandedness of American Greeks, who look back to Attic aridity, through a veil of hazy recollection, a ward the cause of the Republic...