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  • Novelist Ayn Rand articulated the Alliance's version of loyal American film content in Screen Guide for Americans, a 1950 pamphlet that offered such guidelines as "Don't Smear the Free Enterprise System," "Don't Deify the 'Common Man,'" and "Don't Smear Industrialists."

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • Make an exception for the black man we wish to Deify.

    John McCain approves another devastating attack. Ann Althouse 2008

  • To jump at conclusions on no other authority than their own ignorant assumptions, and to Deify errors on no other authority than their own heated imaginations, has in all ages been the practice of Theologians.

    An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

  • "Deify me and I bu'st!" observed Chullunder Ghose.

    Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931

  • When he accepted a fellowship at Smith College in the fall of 2000, the student newspaper complained bitterly: "Deify Celebs Much, Smith?"

    NYT > Home Page By JANET MASLIN 2011

  • When he accepted a fellowship at Smith College in the fall of 2000, the student newspaper complained bitterly: "Deify Celebs Much, Smith?"

    NYT > Global Home By JANET MASLIN 2011

  • Thus may they confecrate even their infirmities, and tho 'they cannot Deify, or erecSt Temples to them, as the Romans did to their paffions, nay their di (ea (es yet after they are thus cleanfed, they may (acrifice them as the Jeiys did the clean beafts in the Tabernacle ..

    The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts 1705

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