What is "pressmen"

Usage examples of "pressmen".

The young man with the briefcase retreated ultra-nervously and in panic ran away, and Filmer, regaining control of himself, began looking around in the general direction of stewards and pressmen to see if any of them had noticed.

Herbert's movies were still doing the rounds of art houses and late-night TV channels, and most of the pressmen there had seen at least one of them.

I learned later that he thought stupidity the norm for human behaviour, and that no one was as stupid as passengers, politicians, pressmen and the people who employed him.

With thousands of pairs of binoculars trained my way, with television eyes and patrol cameras and perceptive pressmen acutely focussed, losing would be hard enough anyway, and practically suicidal if I left it until it was clear that Daylight would win.

Other jockeys and trainers and several pressmen had said to me often in varying degrees of exasperation or humour, "I don't know how you put up with it," and the answer was always the true one.

On the one hand the compositors and pressmen were forced to admit that the light was uncertain, that they were themselves much perturbed, and that it was difficult for them to swear to the identity of the assailants.

The passengers hadn't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station, it appeared, as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria, and had asked Mercer whether it wasn't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car, and hadn't he invited trouble by adding it to the train.

Might as well read what they'd said, the Goddamned pressmen, God bless them.

Owners, trainers, jockeys, Stewards, pressmen, two or three of the bigger bookmakers, starters, judges, Clerks of Courses and all the others, all with their wives and friends and chattering guests.

Jockeys and trainers, officials and valets and pressmen bade each other goodnight all around us although it was barely three-forty in the afternoon and not yet dusk.

He piloted his figurehead through the throng of pressmen and television cameras, and up towards a red-white-and-blue platform.