"Elevator boy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... over; but it didn't prove fatal. And as I rides down I couldn't help swappin' a wink with the elevator boy. ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford
... the street, she saw an automobile containing some of her friends. It stopped at the next building. Being desirous of speaking with a girl friend who was seated in the auto, she hurried out to the elevator, hoping to catch them. The elevator boy who took her down-stairs went off duty immediately, which accounts for our not finding any trace of her, and he was kept at home by illness the next morning. The young woman caught her friends, and they insisted ...
— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill
... the corner nearest home did she slow a little, to look behind her as if she feared pursuit. Then finding herself breathless, she stepped aside for a moment into the entrance of an apartment house, and there, under the suspicious watch of a negro elevator boy, pretended to hunt for something in ...
— Apron-Strings • Eleanor Gates
... stenographer, the bookkeeper, the canvasser, the salesman, the commercial traveler, the engineer, the car driver, the hackman, the conductor, the gripman, the brakeman, the electrician, the lineman, the elevator boy, and a host of others, follow trades and occupations which had no existence in the middle ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster |
