press-agentry
Example Sentences
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Despite the rub-a-dub-dub of press-agentry, they emerged as ordinary, hardworking, courageous airmen who were willing to chance death in the hope of finding the future that lies in some far sky.
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
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
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
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)
