bellboy
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Somehow, McCarthy’s assurance makes these clichés seem new again, donning them as naturally as O’Connell’s gawky bellboy wearing an old-fashioned red cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
“He cut it out of the wall with a chisel. A bellboy even helped load the pieces in a truck.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2020
Mr. Berry made early television appearances on variety programs hosted by Garry Moore, Bob Newhart and Ed Sullivan, and beginning in 1960 was featured as a bellboy on “The Ann Sothern Show.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2018
“They don’t give it to the housekeeper or bellboy or front-desk person,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2018
Our whole family crowds into one elevator, and the bellboy waves, saying he will meet us on the eighteenth floor.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
During summers, the children and their father worked as bellboys and valets at the Greenbrier, an expansive resort nearby.
From Washington Post ● May 28, 2021
As a result, union members who work as maids and bellboys at $400-a-night hotels pay nothing for their health care.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2017
V.A.S. frequently enlists bartenders, doormen, bellboys, waitresses and cabbies in games — people a client is unlikely to think are in on the ruse.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2011
Railway clerks, postal employes, butlers, competed against bank-runners, shoe salesmen, bellboys.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other bellboys were taking these risks, and I fell in.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
