Word: exaltation
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...citizens to their-face. No matter how much he may privately agree with Alexander Hamilton's aristocratic theory of government, a president must, as a political officeholder, appear before the voting public as an apostle of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic doctrines. He must seem to exalt the mob's wisdom, bow to its righteous power, inflate its sense of selfimportance, cater to its emotional reflexes...
Since it became possible for millions of the plain people to hear, elect and exalt their favorite minstrels overnight, it has become suitable for these favorites to cap their professional careers, within a few months of their arrival at the broadcasting station SUCCESS, by publishing their memoirs. It was little more than two years ago that the son of a village druggist in Maine first sent his smooth young voice floating out to the enraptured ladies and envious gentlemen of the radio audience. Yet already, longlipped, wavy-blonde-haired Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee of Westbrook, Me., the Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn...
...every Berlin detective knows, Sadism takes its name from a Frenchman born in the reign of dissolute Louis XV, famed Donatien Alphonse François Comte ("Marquis") de Sade, whose incredibly voluminous and wearisomely detailed writings glorify "the philosophy of cruelty for its own sake" much as Christian writers exalt Divine Love...
...love, serve, obey, and exalt the United States of America. . . . To keep alive the cult with Italy as the Fatherland and the eternal light of civilization and greatness. . . . To submit to the discipline of the hierarchy of the Fascist League of North America...
...shield made of reeds tufted with eagle's down, and a handful of spears, each with an eagle's tuft. The peculiar insignia of his godhead, the so-called "stellar mask" resembles only incidentally that worn by burglars, and its purpose is not to conceal but to exalt...