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
As a teenager, Correa began working as a bellboy in a hotel in central Madrid.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2019
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
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
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
For an hour and a half he continued to eat slowly while bellboys gesticulated from the doorway and the lobby swarmed with buzzing bees.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sleepy pretend princess was escorted to her rooms by a fleet of crisply dressed bellboys and hotel maids.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
