The lifting rope went around a big wheel, acting like a dumbwaiter in some houses.
"The Story of a Stuffed Elephant"
Laura Lee Hope
Such commonplaces of environment as elevator service, water at the turning of a tap, potatoes dug and delivered to her dumbwaiter, had softened Sara and, it is true, vanquished, along with the years, some of the wing flash of vitality from across her face.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
"It's the dumbwaiter," she yawned.
"Mary Rose of Mifflin"
Frances R. Sterrett