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...done more than merely gather the material for an anthology. He has given his apologia in a long preface and before each section, as for instance, the Sportsman's Winter, Countryman's Winter, Reveller's and Fireside Winter, he has contributed an introductory poem of his own. This thread of the poet and compiler's personality running through the book serves to unify the whole and give it a distinctive flavor, so often lacking in the usual run of anthologies...
...thread together these and kindred quaint inventions the picture tells the story of a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). He falls in love with her, encouraging her to believe he is a millionaire. His difficulties in getting funds to maintain this reputation in her unseeing eyes supply most of the complications. He finally acquires $1.000 for which he is promptly and unjustly jailed. When he emerges she has regained her sight by the aid of the thousand. As the film fades she recognizes in the ragged helpless vagrant the wealthy prince she dreamed about in darkness...
...tells us that in netting passenger pigeons the trappers would blind the decoy birds or "stool pigeons" by sewing their eyes shut with a fine needle and silk thread. The decoys were then fastened by their feet to the stool, which has a circular piece of board six or eight inches in diameter, fastened to a stick four or five feet long, the opposite end of which was placed in a slot in a stake, thus forming a hinge so that the bird could be raised and lowered by pulling a string running to the fowler's hiding place...
...wide reading and deep scholarship. Whether or not it was good law was another matter. The Judge. Behind the decision was a tall, angular, sandy-haired man of 39 who has the distinction of being the youngest member of the Federal judiciary. Scion of the rich O N T thread* family, he was born in Newark, learned law at Harvard, served in the A. E. F. He lives quietly in Princeton, has not taken a drink since Prohibition became law. In 1925 President Coolidge appointed him to the bench after the Anti-Saloon League's late great Wayne Bidwell...
...this thin thread of realism Rosamond Lehmann has strung pearls...