paperhanger

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

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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.

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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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Now just imagine, that as a paperhanger I should have taken it into my head to become a Wagner singer!

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various