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
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
They'll whoop your side issues into a scare-head front page!
From One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York by Tracy, Louis
This done, and the sufferer made easy for the night, I glanced at the article which had so upset her, and read its sensational "scare-head."
From The Darrow Enigma by Severy, Melvin Linwood
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
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