messenger boy

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Growing up around his father’s law office, he became a messenger boy in the state Senate, where he met Gov. Earl Warren, the future chief justice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

However, while studying at college, he became attracted to film-making and after a spell working for General Motors quit his job and went to work at 20th Century Fox as a messenger boy.

From BBC • May 12, 2024

Corman got his start as a messenger boy for Twentieth Century-Fox, eventually graduating to story analyst.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024

By the time he was 14 he had his first job in the financial industry, working as a messenger boy for a Manhattan mortgage company.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2023

I’m the new boy and I have to be messenger boy while he’s gone, cycling around Limerick on the bicycle with the big metal basket in front.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt