Word: megalopolitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with such figures as Pound, Morize, or Copeland. During spare minutes he likes to scan his stock of magazines. Indeed, only an overriding sense of nationality, ranks in his makeup with this semiliterate but deadly earnest intellectual streak. A leader in Hellenic causes, he has helped to form the Megalopolitan Club of the United States to raise money for the construction of modern schools at his impoverished birthplace. In Boston the Greek Orthodox Cathedral benefits from his generosity. Over a battered desk hangs perhaps his proudest possession, an autographed portrait of Eleutherios Venizelos, until his death in 1935 the towering...