But she liked to pretend that she was indistinguishable from the rest, and that when a wet day drove her to the Underground or omnibus, she gave and took her share of crowd and wet with clerks and typists and commercial men, and shared with them the serious business of winding-up the world to tick for another four-and-twenty hours.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
I said, quite gently, that I did not wish the boy to acquire precocious chatter about pressing business and pretty typists, and Evie made no opposition; indeed, she laughed when I suggested how unlikely it was that any pretty typist would have pressing business with myself.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
And she'll have her own extending-bracket telephone, the very latest, and arms to her chair to put her elbows on, not like the typists!
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions