hairbreadth

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The age of sophistication raises an eyebrow at any such Hairbreadth Harry interpretation of history.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harold Lloyd, the Hairbreadth Harry of the silent comics, had a hairbreadth escape when prints of his early films, which he valued at $2 million, went up in explosive fire in his private film vault.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week his successor, Henry Lewis Stimson, came close to earning for himself the nickname of "Hairbreadth Harry."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hairbreadth escapes and wicked intrigues in castles built over beetling precipices were sufficiently outside the reader's own experience to produce a thrill.

From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Birkhead, Edith

Hairbreadth escapes were not lacking on the trip of the boy explorer.

From The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)