scarehead
Example Sentences
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Since the war's beginning no week has passed without scarehead rumors and wishful guesses as to the state of the world's oil supply.
From Time Magazine Archive
To take expensive pains to give newspapers accurate medical intelligence and then to have papers garble & scarehead an announcement was the heart sickening experience of New York doctors last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
A scarehead newspaper heard his prophecy that soon ships at sea would call electrically for help, to other ships or shore stations, without having any wired connection.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the scarehead Has 'Polio' Hit the Yankees?,
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't know what they are; but I did a scarehead about them for the Sunday fashion page, last week.
From The Dominant Strain by H. C. (Harry C.) Edwards
