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
And now they stand in some hotel lobby in Turin, shouting at the proprietor while a bellboy waits, holding the elevator.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
“From bellboy to deputy sheriff,” the father says.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2014
The bellboy who took them up wasn’t a boy and hadn’t a bell.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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
Vacationing Americans were shocked to find their money dishonored by bank tellers, bellboys and waiters.
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
