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
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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
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The other bellboys were taking these risks, and I fell in.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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