- [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]
- Adams: Here's Senator Doogan's obituary. Is he dead yet?
- Mr. Thomas: Not yet. Just had a message saying maybe he'll get well.
- Adams: That's tough. Knocks us out of a half column.
- Frank Pratt: Ah, lay it aside, Adams. Maybe he'll croak tomorrow.
- Adams: Well, the Senator certainly missed his big opportunity today. Since there's no news, we could have made him a big headliner.
- 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: 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.