bellman
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Pool ended the 2004 piece with one of his more beloved kickers: “So says the bellman from Bell who became a bellwether in Bel-Air.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
After guests checked in, they would get back in their cars and follow a bicycle-riding bellman to find their room.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022
For more than 20 years, Mwaba Francis has served guests at a DoubleTree by Hilton near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as a bellman and shuttle driver.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
Mr. Coleman remained in White Sulphur Springs to farm, and, when the Depression made farming untenable, to work as a bellman at the Greenbrier, a world-renowned resort there.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2020
Tall, charismatic, and quick with a smile, Howard Vaughan worked as an itinerant bellman at luxury hotels, going south to Florida in the winter and north to upstate New York and Vermont in the summer.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Cooks, room attendants, dishwashers, servers, bellmen and front desk agents at hotels were picketing outside major hotels in Los Angeles and Orange counties just as the summer tourist is ramping up.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2023
While bellmen and room service are considered “tipping staff,” the butlers do not expect fiscal rewards for their work, beyond the Plaza’s paycheck.
From Time ● Aug. 16, 2017
He made banter with supermarket clerks, bellmen, bus drivers—everyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2016
My favorite of all the things she did—one of the bellmen drove her all the way to Ojai to hear lectures by Krishnamurti.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2015
During summers home from Institute, the Coleman boys pulled stints as bellmen, and Katherine and her sister took jobs as personal maids to individual guests.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
