MacWade Quotes in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

[Mac, the newspaper editor, is chewing out his reporting staff for their inability to get a scoop on Deeds]

MacWade: He's been here three days and what have you numb-skulls brought in? Any halfwit novice could have done better. You imbecilic stoops. Now get out of here before I really tell you what I think of you. Go on, get out!

[a reporter mumbles an unintelligible insult at Mac as he exits the office]

MacWade: What was that?

Reporter: I said you were a... uh... I said you had dirty plaster.

[reading Babe's first column about Deeds]

MacWade: "At two o'clock this morning, Mr. Deeds held up traffic while he fed a bagful of doughnuts to a horse. When asked why he was doing it, he replied, 'I just wanted to see how many doughnuts this horse would eat before he asked for a cup of coffee.'"