scare-head
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of scare-head
Example Sentences
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The sidewalks were filled with agitated pedestrians fluttering scare-head newspapers under their noses.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has to be faced now and here, as if it were some great scare-head or billboard on the world, "WHERE ARE WE GOING?"
From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley
Among them, without a scare-head, in the most modest of type, we read: "England and Germany have declared war."
From With the Allies by Davis, Richard Harding
"War Scandal Bursts in France," "Scion of Oldest Noblesse Implicated," "Duke Mysteriously Missing," I read in the diminishing degrees of the scare-head type.
From The Firefly of France by Angellotti, Marion Polk
Why, he had the Ortmeyer-Rawlins wedding fixed out with a scare-head THE WAY OF ALL FLESH!
From The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted by Barrett, Katharine Ellis
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