(1) Tinu, a bootblack , was so fascinated by the show that he strayed into the audience.(2) They came to work in the large industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest as factory laborers, peddlers, busboys, and bootblacks .(3) Similar databases monitoring the investment policies and current rates of cab drivers, short-order cooks, and bootblacks are rapidly gaining in popularity.(4) He avoided factory settings; his heroes were newsboys, bootblacks , and clerks.(5) Newsboys and bootblacks accounted for 27 percent of all arrested.