scare-head

The captain was laboriously spelling out the scare-head articles by the flickering firelight.

The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades J. Watson [Illustrator] Davis

A scare-head across the top of a first page column read:

Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass

"Duke Mysteriously Missing," I read in the diminishing degrees of the scare-head type.

The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

Henceforth they became active purveyors of news and gave the scare-head a modest introduction.

Canadian Journalism 1906

There on the front page was Lewis Langley's picture with a huge scare-head:

The Silent Bullet 1908

A young Jewish newspaper man, half rascal, half poet, wrote a scare-head story for one of the Sunday papers announcing the birth of the Republic of Labour.

Marching Men Sherwood Anderson 1908

When the reporters in my own town found out that Ransom was a second cousin of mine, I was put into a scare-head for the only time in my life.

In the Arena Stories of Political Life Booth Tarkington 1907

Talk of this kind might make a lurid, scare-head story, but, usually, it cannot be touched even with a single guarded sentence.

Idle Comments 1905

The three-column scare-head over their bitterly partisan "story" ran thus:

Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

Her hand trembling so violently that she could scarcely make out the letters she glanced at the big scare-head, printed in red ink, to imitate blood, a merciful custom sensational newspapers have of making the most of the agony of others.

The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure Arthur Hornblow 1903