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
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 Oliver Herford
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 George Francis Train
The captain was laboriously spelling out the scare-head articles by the flickering firelight.
From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by J. Watson Davis
They'll whoop your side issues into a scare-head front page!
From One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy
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