Word: hopperful
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...Hedda Hopper, in her Hollywood gossip column, threw in some motherly advice "I have the greatest admiration for Winston Churchill, but he needs a manager. He's making too many speeches and repeating himself...
...sugar-beet harvester that tops the beets, lifts them, shakes the dirt off, drops the beets in a hopper and tosses the tops in a windrow. It makes beet-picking so much cheaper that it may end the long fight over the sugar-beet tariff...
...Gilmore Co. rents seven and one-half acres to the market, gets a percentage of the gross. And Fred Beck gets $10,000 a year for writing his daily ad column. The Los Angeles Times obligingly permits his column to be set in the same typographical style as Hedda Hopper and Walter Lippmann, requires no "advertisement" identification at the head...
...ladies have been less abandoned in their eulogies, but even among them Miss Bergman has managed very nicely. She even got past the Scylla and Charybdis of the screen press without shipping any water: Hedda Hopper has had nothing but good to say of her, and Miss Bergman is probably the only woman in Hollywood who can say of Lolly Parsons, with transparent sincerity, that she is "really sort of sweet...
Paris Green. Come Down, My Evenin' Star was the work of a tunesmith named John ("Honey") Stromberg, who wrote for the revues at the old Weber & Fields Music Hall when David Warfield, Fay Templeton, DeWolf Hopper and Willie Collier were among its stars. When Lillian made her debut there in 1899 in a travesty on The Girl from Maxim's, Honey Stromberg was her musical director. For four years he wrote his finest tunes for her. One day in 1902 Honey, an acute sufferer from chronic rheumatism, was reported seriously ill at his home in Freeport, Long Island...