Word: scarcecrow
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...tell about the murder. Immediately Mrs. di Rocco with a posse of policemen set out to find her boy. All night they trampled the marshes and woods while up in a tree crouched Johnny. In the morning he came down to face his fate. The searchers had found a scarcecrow, its sawdust head pierced by a bullet, prostrate in the corn...
...always proclaimed the superiority of America in all things, and as an example pointed with pride to the infinitely more wide-awake progressiveness of "our press", will step back aghast at reports from the battle of the papers now raging in London. To the vulgar eye, that threadhare old scarcecrow, "British Conservatism," has pulled himself together and is working off the effects of a violent "jag." The shades of Addison and Steele, returned to earth, if they survived half a day in London traffic, would shrink away in horror at the prospect of the press. The struggle for supremacy...
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