Word: zoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week flashy, rowdy crowds formed around a dirty Mexico City music hall called the Folies Bergere. Even at ii o'clock, when the second show began, they stormed the doors and raced up to the gallery. They were there to see Mexico City's popular clown-zoot-suited, 27-year-old Tin Tan (real name: German Valdes), billed as "The Only Authentic Pachuco...
...year ago Tin Tan was a little-known radio actor in Juarez, where he had picked up his lingo in border cantinas. Actually he speaks excellent Spanish but very poor English. He got his first spot in a live show last summer, at the time of the Los Angeles zoot-suit riots, adopted the zoot-suit as a satiric badge. His act was a flop till he went to Mexico City, where he became the rage overnight...
...probably reveals the temper of France better than anything else one could see or hear in isolated Normandy. A young man who had come from Paris three days before the invasion said that there, all the young people are mad for jazz music and the young men now wear zoot suits. He understood that this was a manifestation of desperation and revolt. But as he whistled snatches of tunes and spoke of le jazz hot, his eyes glistened as if he too were a little...
...people chiefly as embodiments of love, enchantment and death. Moreover, Miss Welty is not writing stories. She is using words to create works of art which lie somewhere between lyric poetry, painting, the still untouchable possibilities of color photography, and dancing. A young Negro dandy in a zoot suit becomes, in Miss Welty's perception, an image of almost Shakespearean loveliness...
Sirs: I am sure that in addition to my thanks . . TIME will receive those of many a loyal, upstanding and worthy Mexican for the only sincerely honest picture of the recent "zoot-suit" atrocity that I, for one, have had the opportunity to read...