Word: debunker
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...disputes which the President failed to settle did bring much unfavorable publicity to the University. But Frank has raised the University's prestige more than factional disputes have impaired it. The current hearings debunk Frank's record no more convincingly than the initial fulminations of the Governor's appointees. Their unseemly haste and petty discourtesies to Dr. Frank indicate the Regent's determination to railroad the President with but scant reflection. The Governor has already reflected for them...
Although Nominee Thomas has scoured the continent from coast to coast, since July 1 has averaged two speeches a day and spent most of his nights in Pullman upper berths, although enough intellectual candor has gone into his speeches to debunk the inflated bombast of U. S. politics, this onetime Presbyterian minister has made much less impression in this campaign than he did in 1932. That year, because many a thoughtful citizen refused to have either Hoover or Roosevelt, the Socialist Party, with Norman Thomas heading its ticket, rolled up 884.741 votes its best record since Eugene Debs nearly touched...
...Ewen has, however, done a really excellent piece of work in so far as he is concerned with the "man with the baton" and not with the men under him. An excellent chapter on, baton exhibitionism does much to "debunk" some popular fallacies as well as to expose certain audience-minded conductors and their tricks to catch popular support. That Leopold Stokowski's Polish accent is a fake, that one conductor wears a corset at every concert to improve his figure, and that a French conductor changes batons in mid-symphonic stream all makes very entertaining if not instructive reading...
John Milton is no longer biographical news. Unlike Shakespeare's, his life has no tantalizingly mysterious blind spots. And no one, since bull-roaring Sam Johnson made his blundering attempt, has tried to debunk Milton; even the Lytton Strachey school of butterfly-breakers has let him respectfully alone. Not because Biographers Belloc and Macaulay were likely to disclose any startling Miltonic discoveries but because both are prominent professional writers, readers last week wanted to see what they had to say about their great predecessor...
...this will mean permanent prosperity. It will empty the poorhouses and the jails. It will cure 90% of our problems. You can't laugh it down. This won't debunk. It's the simplest thing in the world. These professional economists can't see it. It comes from the brain of a little country doctor. God always picks a man like that...