scarehead

Example Sentences

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With World War II it was surer than shellfire that somebody would brush the dust off this old scarehead.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scarehead editor, well aware of his sheet's reputation, said: "We could not afford to print such a piece of inventive lunacy."

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

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

Well, from all I could hear he did; for there wa’n’t any scarehead financial story in the papers, and I guess the bank snarl must have been straightened out all right.

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Ford, Sewell