press-agentry
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As press-agentry it was too good not to have had some such motive among its unmentioned purposes.
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
While the Air Force does have some remarkable missiles, the stratospheric claims of Airman Gardner had the bumptious ring of old-style Air Force press-agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hannagan began press-agentry when Billy McCarney's troupe of barnstorming automobile racers came to Lafayette.
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)
