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
And now they stand in some hotel lobby in Turin, shouting at the proprietor while a bellboy waits, holding the elevator.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
A shaggy white guy in a bellboy uniform knocks on the door of a hotel room in Seoul, South Korea, a little bumbling and out of place.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2016
He had worked in a blacksmith’s shop and as a waiter and as a bellboy in a hotel.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
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
