press-agentry
Americannoun
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the vocation or responsibilities of a press agent.
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publicity produced by a press agent's work or skill, especially in making a person or thing seem more desirable, admirable, or successful.
Etymology
Origin of press-agentry
First recorded in 1910–15; press agent + -ry
Example Sentences
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His experience with Prohibition began in 1927 when General Lincoln Clark Andrews imported him from the field of press-agentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As press-agentry it was too good not to have had some such motive among its unmentioned purposes.
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.
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)
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