elevator-boy

A reluctant elevator-boy went for a box full of straw and some milk, to which he added on his own initiative a tin of large, hard dog-biscuits — one of which decomposed apathetically in the saucer of milk all afternoon.

The Great Gatsby 2003

Mr. Paul Lawrence Dunbar has been until recently an elevator-boy in

History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest Edward A. Johnson

The elevator-boy had arrived and was slamming back the steel grating.

The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

Courtland was sitting in the big chair before the fireplace, though the fire was smoldering low, and the elevator-boy had long ago retired to slumbers on a bench in a hidden alcove.

The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

The elevator-boy had been gaping in seeming paralysis, but now several of the passengers -- men who doubtless were sure of their positions -- were angrily ordering him to take the car down.

The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Bannister Merwin

One evening at ten o'clock we came in from making a call and found the elevator-boy in his shirt-sleeves washing the hall floor.

At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell

Maku had left the car, he continued lakeward, coming out on the drive only a short distance from the Père Marquette, and a few minutes later, after giving the elevator-boy orders to call him at eight in the morning, he was in his apartment, with the prospect of four hours of sleep.

The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Bannister Merwin

It clawed the elevator-boy, bit a postman, held up the traffic for miles, and was finally shot by a policeman.

Uneasy Money 1928

Ross's buoyant egotism, from Mr.. Lawrence's wearing of Una's best veils, from Mr. Schwirtz's acting as though he wanted to kiss her whenever he had a whisky breath, from the office-manager who came in to chat with her just when she was busiest, from the office-boy who always snapped his fingers as he went down the corridor outside her door, and from the elevator-boy who sucked his teeth.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

"Do you suppose there's an elevator-boy in the whole dam 'building that ain't on to you?"

The Turmoil 1915