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
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
It told the whole story, like a "scare-head" in a "yellow" newspaper.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by Train, George Francis
He negatived the Press Agent's suggestion to make a scare-head story of the escape for the papers, and suggested that they should go up and hear Madam Morelli's account of it.
From Side Show Studies by Herford, Oliver
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