scarehead
Example Sentences
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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."
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
Shying off the scarehead name of Romanoff, he posed as a Fox Film Co. executive.
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
"Wait until you see it on the first page, double leaded, with a scarehead."
From The Boy Scouts Patrol by Victor, Ralph
