Search Details

Word: stockboy (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...father left the family when Moynihan was about 10 years old. And the financial instability of his family prompted him to spend much of his time trying to earn money. He worked on the docks, as a stockboy at a department store and on a suburban farm, in addition to a number of other odd jobs...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moynihan To Speak Today | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...Otto (Emilio Estevez), the failed Los Angeles supermarket stockboy, find purpose, if not happiness, as a repossessor of autos on which the owners have failed to make payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Quartet of Cult Objects | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

DIED. Dominic Tampone, 68, vice chairman of Hammacher Schlemmer, the innovative specialty store and oasis of elegant gadgets to the sedulous and casual collector alike; of cancer; in New York City. Beginning as a stockboy at 15, Tampone stayed on for more than 50 years encouraging inventors to bring even the most farfetched ideas to him. Among the once outrageous items his store popularized that have become staples of modern life: the steam iron, the portable radio, the Waring Blendor and the electric razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 6, 1982 | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

That summer Schatz started out as a Bloomingdale stockboy, got fed up, quit and then went to Washington to canvas for the equal rights amendment with the National Women's Political Caucus. His introduction to activism by way of feminist politicking, coupled with the news of the impending National March for Gays and Lesbians, catalyzed Schatz' political college career. "I decided I would come back to Harvard and organize for the march," he says...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Gay Rights: The Emergence of a Student Movement | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...employed at the Harvard Coop as a stockboy and have often loaded or unloaded Coop trucks on that stupid platform. I think it is a hinderance to the workmen and it should not be there. However, the fact remains that all Harvard Coop trucks park on the platform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THAT STUPID PLATFORM | 11/3/1965 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | Next