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press-agentry

[pres-ay-juhn-tree] / ˈprɛsˌeɪ dʒən tri /




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France's designers are delighted to have the press-agentry their first lady provides by simply strolling within range of photographers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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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.

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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

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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