paperhanger

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He had come to office just 33 days after Adolf Hitler, the Austrian paperhanger, had taken over Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.

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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.

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I suggested that we go over in the corner and ask God to send us a paperhanger and while we were praying a man came into the mission.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the smiling paperhanger worked with astonishing rapidity and said that he didn't object in the least to having four pairs of bright eyes watch from the doorway every strip go into place.

From Dandelion Cottage by Rankin, Carroll Watson