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

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.

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Displaying their new fondness for press-agentry, Soviets in Moscow responded with a press conference at which snooping gadgets, including microphones, optical devices and transmitters were displayed.

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Part of J.P.L.'s technical proficiency and lack of press-agentry is due to its connection with Caltech.

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)