press-agentry
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite the TV lights and the press-agentry at a packed Washington press conference, they showed such a basic earnestness and airman's conditioned self-possession, that 200 hard-to-impress capital reporters lustily applauded them.
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.
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)
