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

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Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body.

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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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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