press-agentry
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The tricks of press-agentry which Authors Wilson Mizner and Robert Lord have thought up for Cagney, even the few which are carefully outlined, can scarcely be considered monuments of ingenuity.
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As press-agentry it was too good not to have had some such motive among its unmentioned purposes.
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Merriam's critics also frown upon the downstairs services and his bypassing of constitutional appeals in favor of press-agentry.
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It apparently was released by a public-relations man who was more interested in press-agentry than he was in the truth.
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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)