A scene from His Girl Friday 1940
Hildy

'While hundreds of Sheriff Hartwell's paid gunmen stalked through the city shooting innocent bystanders, spreading their reign of terror, Earl Williams was lurking less than twenty yards from the Sheriff's Office where...'

Walter

Wait a minute, wait a minute, aren't you going to mention the Post? Doesn't the paper get any credit?

Hildy

Well, honey, I did that. Right there in the second paragraph.

Walter

Who's gonna read the second paragraph? Listen honey, for ten years, I've been telling ya how to write a newspaper story and that's all I get?

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