hoodlumism

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In a production gagged to the teeth, liberty lurches into license, license swaggers into outrageousness, and farce reasserts its ancient claim to a kind of benevolent hoodlumism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Racketeering in labor was simultaneously attacked when New York's Doctor-Senator Copeland left Washington with a committee to investigate hoodlumism in New York, Detroit, Chicago.

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Eight months ago, Goodman Quevedo went to work to stop youthful hoodlumism, started a kind of grown-up Boys Club for the zooters.

From Time Magazine Archive

A day after denying that such organized hoodlumism existed in Boston, Saltonstall ordered State police to investigate, prevent further outbreaks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is it any wonder, under such circumstances, that the League season of 1894 was characterized by "hoodlumism?"

From Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895 by Chadwick, Henry