paperhanger

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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

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.

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He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.

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A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.

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The reminiscences of the plumber provoked the paperhanger to further recollections, more particularly the stunning effects of the French shell-fire.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman