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Rare is the U. S. editor who has not snorted at the studied effronteries of George Bernard Shaw, recognizing them for what they frankly are: publicity bait.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition, I must devise some means of handling M. Minkoff s latest effronteries.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole