Word: hopper
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...Hedda Hopper, who knows Hollywood frou-&-frou, went to England to get some fundamental stuff. "During the war, every home in England was in the front lines," the high-styled gossipiste told her wide-eyed readers, "so I want to know what the masses thought...
Twice since 1900 the Hawaiian sugar industry has been seriously threatened by bugs: 1) the sugar-cane leaf hopper was brought under control by parasites imported from New Guinea, Australia and China; 2) the anomola beetle was eventually laid low by a bug from Manila. A dramatic victory was won over the voracious avocado mealy bug, a native of Mexico. One of his old enemies was brought over from Mexico, and now both bug and parasite have disappeared...
...Hedda Hopper's hat contest was a crowning success. For five weeks, on Tom Breneman's Breakfast in Hollywood (ABC, Mon.-Fri.,11 a.m., E.S.T.), heady Hedda asked for amateur hat designs, soon had 65,000 entries on hand. This week, with the same girlish glee with which she writes her Hollywood gossip column, Hedda announced the 103 win ners...
...where n is the diathetical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is Cholmondeley's annular grillage coefficient. Initially, n was measured with the aid of a metapolar refractive pilfrometer . . . but up to the present date nothing has been found to equal the transcendental hopper dadoscope...
Hedy Lamarr was "terribly hurt." Her third husband, Actor John Loder, had walked out on her two weeks before and she hadn't seen him since. Said she: "We had a quarrel." Overshadowed Actor Loder had been terribly hurt, too, reported Gossipist Hedda Hopper. She figured that the beginning of the end was when he failed to bag a leading role in famed Wife Hedy's latest picture...