scarehead

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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

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

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