press-agentry
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The tricks of press-agentry which Authors Wilson Mizner and Robert Lord have thought up for Cagney, even the few which are carefully outlined, can scarcely be considered monuments of ingenuity.
From Time Magazine Archive
As press-agentry it was too good not to have had some such motive among its unmentioned purposes.
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While the press howled for ex-Hollywood Press Agent Lynn Farnol's scalp, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced a reorganization of Army press-agentry, which had been in the works before the air-marker story.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later he did small-time press-agentry, served as saxophonist in a band, was a gossip columnist for Theatre Magazine, broke into radio as a theatrical commentator.
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 Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
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