Definition of "press-agent" []

• A man employed to attend to newspaper advertising, and supply editors with news of changes of program, cast, etc. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A little pamphlet given away by an American tourist agency and evidently written by an accomplished press-agent gave me the desired information:"
• "The conservative sister just got a job as a press-agent for a republican senator and his whole office thinks that she got her job because they slept together."
• "The thing to do is to be practical and up-to-date, and hire a real paid press-agent for the"