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bellboy

[bel-boi] / ˈbɛlˌbɔɪ /


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A hotel manager at a ski resort in Norway does his best to cope with unruly guests and a new bellboy who seems determined to drive him crazy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2020

“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 cheerful bellboy clicked his heels together in the Russian fashion.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

A kind of satanic hotelier takes him in tow and dispatches him, like one of nature's naivest bellboys, to the fetid rooms of earthly existence.

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




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