paperhanger

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He had come to office just 33 days after Adolf Hitler, the Austrian paperhanger, had taken over Germany.

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

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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 built an addition to my dwelling; and when it was completed I employed a paperhanger from London named Taylor, to beautify the old rooms.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.