Copy (1929)

Roscoe Karns: City Editor John Mack

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Jimmy : Hey, the boss wants to see ya.

  City Editor John Mack : You tell 'im I've gone home.

  [puts on coat and leaves office] 

• City Editor John Mack : What's that? Jealous husband came home and shot his wife in the bathtub? I don't believe it. It isn't Saturday.

• City Editor John Mack : [on the phone with his wife]  Don't talk to me like that. I'll tell you where you head off when I get home. You just wait! I'll show you who wears the pants in my family.

• City Editor John Mack : [on the phone with his wife]  You gave Lucy's lunchbox to a neighbor and missed the boat?

  Adams : Just like a woman. Always late.

• Jimmy : Why didn't you sock that big stiff in the nose, Mr. Mack?

  City Editor John Mack : Because, Jimmy, the typewriter is mightier than the fist.

  Jimmy : Then, now, sock him with a typewriter.

• City Editor John Mack : Adams, turn in your copy. Here's a chance to show whether you're journalists or just reporters. What you turn out today will stand for or against you.

• City Editor John Mack : Thanks, boys. You're newspaper men.

• City Editor John Mack : Make this story snappy. Don't use "rats in a trap". Every paper in town will use that. Adams, don't use "cataclysm".

  Adams : I can't even spell it.

• City Editor John Mack : [on the phone]  This is the office of the City News. No, no, not the city Jews - News.