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press agent
A man employed in connexion with a theatre or the like to attend to the advertising, and the reporting of the performances. Also, more widely, one employed by any person or organization to handle publicity.
1883Railway Age 25 Jan. 46/3 On general principles..we desire to observe that the associate press agent, or some one who make Wichita conspicuous in the dispatches is an ass. 1902W. H. Chantrey Theatre Accounts ii. 28 Salaries... Press Agent and Bill Inspector 5-10-0. 1917Wodehouse Uneasy Money x. 114 Roscoe Sherriff, her press agent. 1949Chicago Tribune 9 Dec. 18/3 This was the first time that a press agent had hit on a truthful first page story in a month of Sundays. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media xxi. 213 Today's press agent regards the newspaper as a ventriloquist does his dummy. 1977Time 10 Oct. 61/1 A former pressagent, Condon, 62, boasts average book sales of 1.3 million.
Hence ˈpress-agent v. trans., to advertise in the manner of or by means of press agents; ˈpress-agented ppl. a.; press-agenting vbl. n.; ˈpress-agentry, the employment or activities of press agents.
1909Wodehouse Swoop ii. ii. 68 Come now, your Grand Grace, is it a deal? Four hundred and fifty chinking o'Goblins a week for one hall a night, and press-agented at eight hundred and seventy-five. 1913Writer's Mag. Nov. 172/1 There is no ‘side line’ open to the young writer better than press agentry. 1920W. T. Tilden Art of Lawn Tennis 3, I shall be accused of ‘press-agenting’ my own book by this statement. 1926Daily Express 6 Aug. 3/5 Even the Hohenzollerns know something about Press agentry. 1930P. W. Slosson Great Crusade & After x. 271 The same press-agenting which helped make the reputation of a grand-opera star..was also at the service of a pugilist. 1933Nation (N.Y.) 11 Jan. 43 He press-agented most of the striking new theories, from those of the Lombrosian criminology..on down to the neo-Nietzchean doctrines of Elie Faure. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 22 Nov. 13/1 Mr. Frank Murphy, the present highly press-agented Attorney General. 1947M. Berger in R. de Toledano Frontiers of Jazz 100 Bunk indulged in some personal press-agenting. 1948Archit. Rev. CIV. 89 The same press-agentry that ballooned the popularity of other stars in the field of jazz. 1959Time (Atlantic ed.) 24 Aug. 45 A longstanding and well pressagented public ‘feud’. 1973E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 9 Whether they will regard Black dramatic criticism seriously and not degenerate into professional press agentry. 1977Irish Press 29 Sept. 10/2 Meanwhile back in Ireland we are faced with the usual problem of press agentry. |