Word: zoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...police practice was to accompany the caravans in police cars, watch the beatings and then jail the victims. Their orders apparently were to let the Shore Patrol and the Military Police handle the rioting sailors. The service police were futile.) But now the rioting seemed to be diminishing. The zoot-suiters lay low, the sailors and soldiers had seemingly wreaked sufficient revenge for the several occasions when zoot-hoodlums had attacked and robbed them...
Hearst's Examiner kept pounding: "Police Must Clean Up L.A. Hoodlumism." The first paragraph of an editorial said: "Riotous disturbances of the past week in Los Angeles by zoot-suit hoodlums have inflicted a deep and humiliating wound on the reputation of this city...
California's zoot-suit war was a shameful example of what happens to wartime emotions without wartime discipline...
Some of Los Angeles' young Mexicans, organized into zoot-suit "gangs" that were the equivalent of boys' gangs almost any where, had got out of hand: they had robbed and used their knives on some lone sailors on dark side streets. But probably the trouble could have been ended right there. One who thought so was Eduardo Quevedo, a plump, cigar-chewing, shock-headed amateur sociologist, president of the Coordinating Council for Latin Americans, member of the Citizens' Committee on Latin American youth...
...Windsor, in "Wallis Blue" and a sable scarf, bestrewed wounded U.S. fighting men with 1,500 rosebuds. Accompanying her, the Duke was clad in a grey plaid ten years old (too old to be one of those English drapes which some stylists conceive as a possible source of the zoot suit). The Duke compared the style of reporters' pants with his own, remarked: "I think it's a silly rule that does away with trouser cuffs...