paperhanger
Example Sentences
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He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the early 1920s Ausborn fought against the thick-skulled youths lapping up the words of a pallid Austrian paperhanger, but by 1928 he was convinced that Hitler was destroying "everything that was decent in Germany."
From Time Magazine Archive
In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.
From Time Magazine Archive
His family emigrated to the U.S. when he was nine and settled at Bayonne, N.J., where his father became a paperhanger, a trade that Burns learned as a schoolboy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a paperhanger among other things, and a great pair of shears had been lying on the table.
From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer
