hoodlum
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He agreed to make two pictures a year if given time off to act on Broadway, and he bought out his contract to produce “The Hoodlum Priest” independently.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024
Duke's directing credits include "Deep Cover," "A Rage in Harlem," and "Hoodlum."
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2020
Pickford, pictured here on the set of Hoodlum in 1925, made more than 200 films "It's like finding an early song by George Gershwin, or an unpublished short story by Mark Twain."
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2013
Hoodlum skateboards will be touring the northeast from July 3 to July 16th.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Author of "Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum," 1902; "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr.,"
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
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