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
Along the scare-head Luck had indicated, his dirty forefinger moved slowly while he spelled out the words.
From The Heritage of the Sioux by Bower, B. M.
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
It had the usual scare-head, and began by announcing that the White Mail, with General Manager Blank's car Kaskaskia, came in on time, carrying signals for a freight train.
From The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories by Warman, Cy
"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
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