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busboy
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Assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables; one who buses
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The next day, newspapers around the country reported that Lindsay had discovered an African American busboy poet.
While working as a busboy in a hotel in Washington, D.C., Hughes put three of his own poems beside the plate of Vachel Lindsay in the dining room.
When a teenage Brandon, then a busboy in Caesar's Palace, once cleared his hero's table, it was like touching the hem of the master's robe.
He travelled to West Africa and Europe before returning to the US taking various jobs before meeting the poet Vachel Lindsay while working as a busboy at a Washington hotel.
Between school and university, I signed on to work as a busboy at Butlins in Clacton, where I cleared tables, swept floors and performed other undemanding tasks.
The hotel is steeped in history: Charles Dickens stayed there while rehearsing A Christmas Carol; Ho Chi Minh, who trained under Escoffier in Paris, was a pastry chef here, before he returned to wrestle Vietnam from the French and Americans; and Malcolm X, cut from a very different type of revolutionary cloth, did a stint as a busboy.
He started his professional career as a busboy at Sinclair's in Lake Forest, Illinois.
He is a busboy in the club; she is a young thing in a pink dress who wanders in, perhaps looking for a place to do her homework.
On… Where Ramon worked washing dishes, the owner called him in one day and said that he was raising him to busboy.
An unskilled laborer — a valet parker, a dishwasher, a chambermaid, a waiter, a busboy — can make more money in Las Vegas than just about anywhere else.
John Catsimatidis, whose name rhymes with Gristede's, has been considering a run for mayor since 2003, on the strength of his business record and his life story: born in Greece, son of a busboy, amateur pilot, self-made billionaire.
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