Word: scareheads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With World War II it was surer than shellfire that somebody would brush the dust off this old scarehead. A small new company brought the title up to date as Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, tacked it to a film about the horrors of concentration camps. The picture might have been spurlos versenkt itself had not worried Director Irwin Esmond-of N. Y. State's Education Department (Motion Picture Division) called it "inhuman, sacrilegious and tending to incite to crime." New York censors promptly banned it, almost as quickly reversed their ban after the title was changed to Beasts...
...carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils at West Philadelphia High decided Miss Burchett had gone too far, walked out of her classes. Shooed by policemen, the students went back. But next day, deluged...
Despite these scarehead advance notices, the Freethinkers' meeting resulted in no rows, attracted 900 people, deist or otherwise, who felt in safe enough company with such speakers and endorsers of the congress as H. G. Wells, Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, C. E. M. Joad. G. D. H. Cole, J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Edouard Herriot, Somerset Maugham. Typical subjects for discussion at the meetings: Science and the Churches; Youth, the Schools and Free Thought; Present Religions Reaction and the Menace of the Vatican...
...personal command of Governor Earle. The chains amassed petitions from their customers, lined up the press and the farmers in almost solid opposition. Once last spring after Columbia Broadcasting System refused to allow speakers to blast the bill in an A. & P. broadcast, big advertisements appeared with the scarehead: THIS is THE STORY THE RADIO KEPT FROM You. Below the condensed versions of undelivered speeches were the signatures not only of the principal chains but also of the Chester County Dairymen's Co-Operative Association, the Lehigh Valley Co-Operative Farmers' Association and the South York County Dairymen...
Cities Gassed? In 1931 Biographer Emil Ludwig published in the Satevepost a scarehead article in which he stated: "Twelve big bombs of Lewisite gas dropped on Berlin or Chicago would be enough to destroy all life in those cities." Chemical officers jumped on this statement as utter nonsense. Author Prentiss points out that to lay down any sort of effective (not lethal) contamination it would be necessary to deposit 10 Ib. of vesicant liquid on every...