Word: exalts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mussolini and King Emmanuel will be printed in special type in the write-up text as well as the headlines, and what is more significant, the names of all lesser men will be rigorously, and perhaps conspicuously, omitted. The effect of these two rules naturally will be to exalt the Leader even more; and in consequence it may heighten the belief of the populace that when he passes, there will be none to replace him and things will go rapidly to pot. While that idea if accepted would be convenient for Mussolini, no doubt, it seems a hazardous thing...
...order thus to exalt the Japanese official whose official responsibility was stained with the blood of Premier Inukai, it was necessary to oust last week the ''Conqueror of Manchuria," taciturn Gen eral Shigeru Honjo (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Orders are orders. Conqueror Honjo packed up on short notice and silently quit Mukden from which he has directed the Japanese occupation of Manchoukuo...
...professional strongman and later a millionaire publisher on the body-love theme, last week arranged to perpetuate his fame and elevate his prestige. Even as John D. Rockefeller improved the odor of his oil millions by establishing the Rockefeller Foundation for medical research, so Mr. Macfadden decided to exalt physical culture by establishing a Bernarr Macfadden Foundation. The endowment : $5,000,000 interest in Macfadden real estate and publications {Physical Culture Magazine which has currently become dignified- TIME, Sept. 21; Liberty, True Story, and 17 other magazines; the New York tabloid [porno] Graphic and 5 other newspapers...
...that the author or his characters do. However it seems likely that in future ages it will be increasingly difficult for the reader to discern the melody in the chaos of images flitting across the character's brain. It must be admitted that Mr. Peterson does not attempt to exalt this introspective dreamlike poetry of Aiken's, but takes it as an excellent example of important trends in modern literature...
...City of Mahagonny, a gruesome piece set in an imaginary U. S. Sodom where money is the gluttonish god. Lindbergh's Flight makes the same attempt at realism but there is a fundamental difference. Weill & Brecht did it in a comparatively high-minded mood. They meant to exalt Lindbergh in the same epic style which the ancients used to exalt their heroes. Their intention was not to shock seasonsed concertgoers but to tell the deed "in terms intelligible to school children or to students at preparatory schools...