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

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

They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists.

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

If then he makes a scarehead of it, and gets in three columns of space and as many photographs, it is his just reward.

From The Window at the White Cat by Rinehart, Mary Roberts