Word: debunkment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biography is extraordinarily well rounded and refreshing, refurbishing every facet of a well dusted personality. Where others worship, Fay sits in admiration. Where some debunk, he is content to admit the frailty of man. "This man, who is not conspicuous because he possessed a just sense of proportion, threw in his lot with that of his country. His glory is the patrimony of civilization. Others are born eloquent; he was born legendary...
LONG a dark secret to the untravelled, Africa is now so much before the eyes and ears of the world, we feel perhaps that bounties should be shifted from man-eating lions and placed upon the heads of sensationalist writers who seek to debunk the country of every lingering element of charm. But to those of us who first heard a leopard snarl or the Ashango tomtoms beat in the pages of a Paul Du Chaillu book, Africa will remain the magic land forever. Now appears for the first time a life account of the man who had this ability...