Word: opper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia, as in the U.S. and Britain, a hooligan is an unmannerly rough, named in all likelihood for the Irish family Hooligan whose rioting through London's Southwark was immortalized in a music hall song of the period.* Later cartoonist Frederick B. Opper endeared well-meaning, disastrous Happy Hooligan to millions. The U.S. State Department says that in Soviet law hooliganism means "a mild form of disorderliness...
Both Starr and Gould were in the U.S. on Pearl Harbor morning. The Post's Managing Editor Frederick B. Opper was caught in Shanghai...