Word: zoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nights the mobs of soldiers and sailors had found poor hunting. In long caravans of cabs and private cars they had toured the Mexican sections, armed with sticks and weighted ropes, crashing into movie houses, looking for zoot-suited pachucos, the little Mexican-American youths. But they had found only a few dozen, and not all of them even wore zoot suits. They had broken the jaw of a 12-year-old boy. Said the boy, in the hospital...
...Zoot Suit. A secret session of Indianapolis judges, called by Judge Emsley Johnson Jr., set aside a plea that they wear gay, floral-patterned robes...
...bring them over from their tropical islands 200 miles out in the Atlantic, the Farm Security Administration set up an air ferry service. The first two groups of 21, some dressed in dungarees, some in zoot suits, coasted in on Pan-Am Clippers. Then came a batch of 60 in a huge Army transport. Few days later, 76 arrived by boat; by week's end 850 Bahamians were on their knees, pushing hampers between the endless rows of bean vines...
...shower with jealous husband William Bendix. Alan Ladd commits a ten-second murder, Lamour, Goddard, and Lake chant the woes of "A Sweater, A Sarong. And A Peckaboo Rang," MacMurray, Milland, Tone, and Overman revive George Kaufman's classic "If Men Played Cards As Women Do." and Rochester's zoot suit number is stolen by un-billed dancer Katharine Dunham. Bing Crosby is really wasted, however, on the patriotic finale, and Harold Arlen's song "Old Glory." is a rehash from his own and better "God's Country...
High spots: Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake sing, in appropriate costume, a little number called A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo-Bang; Rochester (in a zoot suit) and Dancer Katherine Dunham give out with a strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower...