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Word: rootin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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Plot: A Pocatello, Idaho madame, wronged in youth, sits in the centre of a web of rootin', tootin', shootin' lawlessness. Her name is Salt Chunk Mary. But although she conducts a thieves' den and liquor saloon, Salt Chunk is violently opposed to white slavery, has a 14-karat heart. To her resort comes a youthful badman who soon pokes his neck in the shadow of the gallows. Salt Chunk, drawn to him by some strange fascination, makes him promise to go straight, helps him escape with the sweetheart he has picked up in her place, dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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