- 'Timmy' Blake: I hate spoil your fun Buck; but, this isn't the ball game we're going to.
- Buck: Huh?
- 'Timmy' Blake: Take that Press card outta your hat!
- 'Timmy' Blake: Snoopy Davis, how'd you get past the cops?
- 'Snoop' Davis: You know me and The Chronicle - we always find a way.
- 'Timmy' Blake: You must have been a passenger on the train to beat The Express here, I'll tell you that.
- 'Snoop' Davis: That's right. How did you guess?
- 'Timmy' Blake: Aw, I'm cute that way.
- Murphy: I just got excited that's all. But, what a picture. Wait'll they get a load of it at breakfast. Boy, a lot of people won't be able to finish their prunes.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Snoopy?
- 'Snoop' Davis: Yeah?
- 'Timmy' Blake: You got the dope, didn't you?
- 'Snoop' Davis: I always get the dope.
- Murphy: The Great Eastern Railway won't like it.
- Bill Morgan: I feel awfully sad about the Great Eastern Railway. I'm running a newspaper not a timetable!
- 'Timmy' Blake: What do you expect anyway? I bring you a picture and a beat and all I get is a lot of yellin'! Maybe I should've brought the whole train wreck back in the rumble seat!
- Bill Morgan: Timmy, haven't I always told you - you were a great newspaper woman. And, I like you, too. I'm daffy about you.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Yeah?
- Bill Morgan: Yeah. But, right now you ought to get some sleep. You look like something that's come out of a faucet.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Something that came out of a faucet! Well, why shouldn't I? For the past five hours I've been up to my knees in blood and trains and mud and bodies! And for what? For you! You egotistical printing press! And you expect me to come here looking like a debutante on her way to the opera!
- 'Timmy' Blake: You and your smelly jocks can take a broad jump in the river!
- Bill Morgan: What river?
- 'Timmy' Blake: Shut up!
- 'Timmy' Blake: I feel like forgetting all about railroads, wrecks, and murders and newspapers at least for the space of one evening. And get me that sissy-lookin' lingerie I got in New Orleans.
- Dorinda - Timmy's Maid: And your new dress too?
- 'Timmy' Blake: Right.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Give me a Mickey Finn! I mean, give me another one of these things I've been drinkin', only make it double!
- Bill Morgan: What do you mean she's not there? Imagine that double-crossin' dame leavin' me high 'n dry like that.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Dorinda!
- Dorinda - Timmy's Maid: Was sa matta? Was sa matta, Miss Timmy?
- 'Timmy' Blake: Throw this Peeping Tom outta here.
- Bill Morgan: Get her suit, coat and a pair of goulashes and an old toothbrush and pack a bag right away.
- Buck: Come on, swami. Get outta those feathers.
- 'Timmy' Blake: I might as well be working in a burlesque show!
- Buck: Put your clothes on or that's where you'll wind up anyway.
- 'Timmy' Blake: The Wade dame will be out in a minute. Get ready to bag her.
- Murphy: I'm always ready.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Turn the motor on Buck.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Buck, you get that honk of yours over to the telephone office and see if you can charm the operator. I want to know if the Wade dame put in a call to the doc before or after Wade started bangin' the harp.
- Buck: Easy.
- 'Timmy' Blake: And make it fast, will ya. I gotta get all the dope I can before the autopsy is over.
- 'Timmy' Blake: By noon the town will be swarming with reporters. They'll print everything they can get there hands on. So will I. It won't be very pretty for you. It will be a ghastly, smelly, dirty mess. It won't be like a court of law, Miss Wade. You'll be guilty until proven otherwise. You see, you've got a great handicap. You're beautiful and you make good copy.
- Taxi Driver: You city fellas come down here about the Wade poisoning?
- 'Snoop' Davis: No. No, we're interested in the local ski jumping.
- 'Snoop' Davis: Are you sure you didn't poison the old boy yourself? Just to get a scoop?
- 'Timmy' Blake: Its what's known as a nose for news.
- 'Snoop' Davis: One of these days, young lady, I'm going to take that face of yours and squeeze it like a grapefruit.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Always a gentleman.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Snoopy and the gang just blew in. Don't give that bunch of gorillas anything. This is our story and let's keep it that way.
- Bill Morgan: Unidentified man? That makes a great story: Arline Wade out with another man the night before her husband's funeral. Headline: Arline Wade, Beautiful Broadway Butterfly...
- 'Timmy' Blake: Returns To Her Old Haunts...
- Bill Morgan: Indulges In An Orgy Of Dining And Dancing While Her Husband Lies Dead In A Beautiful Mansion
- Bill Morgan: Splash that picture all over the front page! Put in a drawing on page 3 of a night club orgy of champagne bottles, dames' dancing, everybody plastered!
- Bill Morgan: Sam, I want to tell you something. You're a prince. You really are, fella. I've always said you're one of brightest guys in New York. Haven't I, Timmy?
- 'Timmy' Blake: Right.
- Mac: What's this leading up to?
- Bill Morgan: Well, now, look, you don't mind going through a few pictures, do ya? I didn't think so. Look, here, have a cigar. I'm gonna have one myself.
- Mac: I'll take an aspirin.
- 'Timmy' Blake: I'm gonna run an ad of your nightclub for the next three weeks and it's not going to cost you a quarter.
- Mac: Thanks, Bill!
- 'Timmy' Blake: It might cost you a coupla bucks.
- Bill Morgan: Ha, cutie. Always clowning.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Carlton Whitney admits all. Yeah, he knew her before she married Wade. Advised her to marry... on account he was filthy with dough. He met her about a year ago and ever since then they've been very palsy-walsy.
- 'Timmy' Blake: What are you doing here?
- Bill Morgan: You female Judas, I dropped over here to slug you.
- 'Timmy' Blake: Start sluggin'.
- 'Timmy' Blake: You wouldn't listen to me, would you? You thought you were the mastermind of the Press. You dumb, stupid, moronic...
- Bill Morgan: Now, what a minute!
- 'Timmy' Blake: What a minute? I've waited for years for this. To prove to you that there are things in the world that are fine and decent. And there are women that would throw anything for the man they love!
- Bill Morgan: [final lines] A newspaper never waits, my pearl! Come on, we've wasted half a day already. Taxi! Yahoo!
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