Lexicographical Neighbors of Scareheads
Literary usage of Scareheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"There is an eager and feverish struggle for the unusual, the dramatic and the
spectacular, a constant straining for effect, a lavishness of "scareheads" and ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1913)
"Much could be told of news editions containing scareheads and zinc etchings of
one Imogen Vernon—Madam Bill, whom the reporters held to be the real winner ..."
3. The Bookman (1900)
"As his home was near the Paterson Daily Guardian office, he was in close touch
with the political situation and ever on the alert for "scareheads. ..."
4. The Bookman (1905)
"All the huge scareheads have been devoted to Japanese successes and Russian
disasters. Russian successes and Japanese disasters are either unnoticed or ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"There is an eager and feverish struggle for the unusual, the dramatic and the
spectacular, a constant straining for effect, a lavishness of "scareheads" and ..."
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