- a variation of scare-head.
Example Sentences
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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.
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They imported from Publisher Hearst, then at his yellowest, some of the country's leading scarehead artists.
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Since the war's beginning no week has passed without scarehead rumors and wishful guesses as to the state of the world's oil supply.
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Under the scarehead Has 'Polio' Hit the Yankees?,
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"Wait until you see it on the first page, double leaded, with a scarehead."
From The Boy Scouts Patrol by Victor, Ralph