press-agentry
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Hannagan began press-agentry when Billy McCarney's troupe of barnstorming automobile racers came to Lafayette.
From Time Magazine Archive
Merriam's critics also frown upon the downstairs services and his bypassing of constitutional appeals in favor of 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.
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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
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)
