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Definition of Hoodlumism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoodlumism
Literary usage of Hoodlumism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Motherhood by Mary Wood-Allen (1898)
""hoodlumism springs naturally into being, like everything else, when the conditions
are ripe. The right conditions are idleness and a lack of incentive ..."
2. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922)
"hoodlumism evokes this comment: Citizens of Chicago, make your hoodlum element
amenable to law, break up and destroy hoodlumism as you would a pestilence. ..."
3. Little Journeys to the Homes of by Elbert Hubbard (1906)
"hoodlumism is born of idleness; it is useful energy gone to seed. In small towns
hoodlumism is rife, and the hoodlums are usually the children of the best ..."
4. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Illinois Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922)
"hoodlumism evokes this comment: Citizens of Chicago, make your hoodlum element
amenable to law, break up and destroy hoodlumism as you would a pestilence. ..."
5. History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association; 1870-1879 by Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association (1901)
"We must work resolutely against him and set up counter-irritants against hoodlumism,
and so the pettiness and laxity of country life — the natural soil of ..."
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