scarehead

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

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

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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.

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

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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.