Word: hoodlum
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...year-old hoodlum, out on parole from reform school, met a 65-year-old rabbi. First the hoodlum insulted the rabbi, then knocked out two of his teeth. A month later Hoodlum John Peluso and Rabbi Sholem Cohn met in a New York court. The charge against Peluso: felonious assault. Said Rabbi Cohn in Yiddish (he cannot speak English): "As a rabbi, I forgive him. I don't want him punished...
...drew near, crushing responsibility settled back upon the handful of top commanders. For the Germans, it fell most heavily on two field marshals, able hoodlum Erwin Rommel and able Junker Gerd von Rundstedt. They were hard at work on their checkup of garrisons, driving their staffs to perfect the plans for the 50-odd divisions they will have in the West on Dday...
...Hoodlum Saint (M.G.M.) will be based on the life of the late Dempster MacMurphy who, feeling that Repentant Thief St. Dismas never got full credit for his virtue (despite Christ's explicit "Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise"). acted as a one-man press bureau for the Saint. Father Edward Dowling, close friend of MacMurphy and editor of Queen's Work, is collaborating on the script with Writer Casey Robinson...
...temple and synagogue in the Washington Heights area has been desecrated. Building walls have been marked with the swastika, and pornographically hateful descriptions of the Jews. At least two Protestant churches in the area have been similarly desecrated. . . . The assault incidents have a uniform pattern. In each case the hoodlum demands to know the religion of his intended victim. If the victim admits he is Jewish, or if the hoodlum concludes that this is the fact... an assault ensues. The age range of the anti-Semitic hoodlums is 10 to 14. They travel in groups of two to ten. They...
...Angeles papers carried this typical headline: "Zoot Suit Hoodlum Mobs Attack Service Men." I saw nothing to justify this headline except circulation. I found the situation to be entirely the reverse. I found the zooter on most occasions outnumbered 200 to one, except in their enforced segregated districts...