scarehead

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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

Shying off the scarehead name of Romanoff, he posed as a Fox Film Co. executive.

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

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

He'd been a teamster, and he lost his job when he came down with pneumonia, and after they let him out of the hospital, he looked such a scarehead that nobody would employ him.

From Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson