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
A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had come to office just 33 days after Adolf Hitler, the Austrian paperhanger, had taken over 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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
