hoodlum
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He agreed to make two pictures a year if given time off to act on Broadway, and he bought out his contract to produce “The Hoodlum Priest” independently.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024
Duke's directing credits include "Deep Cover," "A Rage in Harlem," and "Hoodlum."
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2020
Pickford, pictured here on the set of Hoodlum in 1925, made more than 200 films "It's like finding an early song by George Gershwin, or an unpublished short story by Mark Twain."
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2013
Rival Hoodlum Barney Weiss apparently had dispatched his own welcoming party to greet Big Jim.
From Time Magazine Archive
Archibald Forbes described the larrikin as "a cross between the Street Arab and the Hoodlum, with a dash of the Rough thrown in to improve the mixture."
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis
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