office boy
Example Sentences
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His parents could not afford to send him to college, but he attended night classes at the University of Chicago while working as a proofreader and office boy for The Chicago Sun-Times.
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023
It was in 1890 that Arthur Beale joined the company as an office boy and the shop was re-named after him in the early 1900s.
From BBC • May 12, 2021
Mr. Hamilton, who had no interest in following his father into the British diplomatic service, entered films at 17 as a studio office boy.
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2016
His assistant and only employee, besides an office boy, was his fiancée, twenty-year-old Blanche Wolf, whom he married a year later and who worked for the company the rest of her life.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016
An office boy came along to direct me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
