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
Behind Marlon, the doors of the Carlyle opened and a bellboy emerged walking backward with a tower of Louis Vuitton luggage on a trolley and Elizabeth at his side.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
The bellboy who took them up wasn’t a boy and hadn’t a bell.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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
A year later, 14 women replaced the bellboys.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 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
Vacationing Americans were shocked to find their money dishonored by bank tellers, bellboys and waiters.
From Time Magazine Archive
In every corner of the city people looked into the faces of shopkeepers, cab drivers, waiters and bellboys to see whether the news already had come and whether it was good or bad.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
