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Show ( "1 How It Started By Jean Newton I J Why Is It "Hoodlum" and "Hooligan"? We all know a '"hoodlum" to be a ruffian. The word is frequently applied ap-plied to street urchins who make a nuisance of themselves generally, but. It Is in the sense of roughneck that it Is usually understood. We have It aflt-r a gangster named Muldoon, who. In iyiS, made life miserable mis-erable for many of the citizens of San Francisco. Public kliguution finally led to Mul-doou's Mul-doou's arrest and arraignment under the name of "Noodlum," which, because be-cause of the bad handwriting of the court clerks, was misread as "Hoodlum," "Hood-lum," in which funu it stayed in our language In the general sense. Iu this connection, it might be stated stat-ed that our word "Hooligan" for a roustabout Is slmilary derived from the name of a notorious gangster of . London in the year 1S0S. ((Si. 1931. Bell Syndicate.) WNU Service. |