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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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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In Kansas City, Mo., another one-armed paperhanger caught another case of hives.

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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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Didn't I send a paperhanger to you with patterns?

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor