press-agentry
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Ever since Michael Curtiz landed in Manhattan on the Fourth of July, 1928, and pretended that he thought the fireworks were in honor of his arrival, he has been a natural for joshing Warner press-agentry.
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
His experience with Prohibition began in 1927 when General Lincoln Clark Andrews imported him from the field of press-agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
It apparently was released by a public-relations man who was more interested in press-agentry than he was in the truth.
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)
