scarehead
Example Sentences
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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
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
Under the scarehead Has 'Polio' Hit the Yankees?,
From Time Magazine Archive
It was 4:30; a whole half hour had passed and Hoboken had not yet been sighted, whereas visions of the coroner's agents and scarehead publicity were everywhere.
From Cupid's Middleman by Lent, Edward B.
