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

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Up to th' time whin th' top blew off th' stock market, he bought his art out iv th' front window iv a news an' station'ry shop or had it put in be th' paperhanger.

From Observations By Mr. Dooley by Dunne, Finley Peter