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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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
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
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.
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 Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
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