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
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
A bellboy in a top hat and white gloves ushered him, his New York girlfriend and his Danish publicist into a black van that deposited them at the gritty Graham Street Market.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2013
He had worked in a blacksmith’s shop and as a waiter and as a bellboy in a hotel.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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
A year later, 14 women replaced the bellboys.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2017
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 other bellboys were taking these risks, and I fell in.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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