paperhanger
Example Sentences
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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
In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.
From Time Magazine Archive
In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just now, he was, as he himself put it, "as busy as a one-armed paperhanger with the hives."
From Bert Wilson on the Gridiron by Duffield, J. W.
