scarehead

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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

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

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

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

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