Word: rootin
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...leading lady, leading lady, I've always wanted to be a Broadway leading lady: The rootin' tootin'est Annie or a madcap Mame or Dolly, That sad and funny girl Fanny, Nelly Forbush or unsinkable Molly...
...meet a shady lady when his rendezvous is suddenly thwarted by a policeman. One of his best series resulted when in 1967 he came across a book by Robert W. Service, whose poetry he had loved as a child. Service's Yukon saloons,^ Canadian Mounties and rootin' tootin' shoot-em-ups meshed perfectly with Copley's scampering W.C. Fields style and his love of Victoriana. The lady is often nude ("Women's bodies are very charming"), the man always clothed ("I don't find nude men charming at all"). Whether waged with sword...