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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1956, an episode that seemed to glorify hoodlumism drew such a loud chorus of protest that some 30 newspapers suspended the strip.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

When this class supports the umpires against the club teams it will be time enough to lay the whole onus of hoodlumism in the ranks on the umpires—not until then.

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




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