press-agentry
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Jaded with press-agentry is Miami, but fortnight ago her citizens were stirred by a new publicity gag turned loose upon them by the McCann-Erickson advertising agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the Air Force does have some remarkable missiles, the stratospheric claims of Airman Gardner had the bumptious ring of old-style Air Force press-agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Merriam's critics also frown upon the downstairs services and his bypassing of constitutional appeals in favor of press-agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
His experience with Prohibition began in 1927 when General Lincoln Clark Andrews imported him from the field of press-agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the averagely curious citizen, eager for insight behind the gilded curtains of press-agentry and partisanship, it was hailed as a shaft of common-sense sunlight thrown into a clay-footed wilderness of political pap.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
