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When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.

John Dos Passos
New York, Men, Typewriters
John Dos Passos, Library of America (Firm) (2003). “Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941”
When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.