Word: saltbox
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Despite the seeming monolithic character of Massachusetts government, its structure is basically just a colonial saltbox illogically encrusted with the bureaucratic gingerbread trappings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Even Foster Furcolo's bitterest enemies do not accuse him of the despotism for which the colonials always suspected George III's governors; and yet the Governor's Council remains, obstructing the chief executive, duplicating other posts and clogging bureaucratic channels. The counties, too, stayed on unchanged after the Revolution, and only inertia perpetuates their costly and relatively useless existence. Yet not since 1917 has a Constitutional Convention studied these antiques...
Running away from the police with a bullet in his arm, Lucky Wilson comes upon Pa Miller (Whitford Kane), a pros perous hay and chicken farmer, living in a saltbox house by Cedric Gibbons. The Miller family?Pa, Ma, Pauline (O'Sulli van), who teaches school, and her little brother Willie?do their best to make Lucky feel at home. Willie shows him the rabbits. Pauline takes him cherry picking. Says she : "You have to whistle when you're picking cherries to show that you're not eating any." When the detectives finally catch up with Lucky Wilson...