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 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."

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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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In the ballroom set, where the flats or walls were all in place, an unexcited paperhanger was busy with the paraphernalia of his craft, somehow looking out of his element in this reign of pandemonium.

From The Film Mystery by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)