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

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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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"By the way, Dimple, I forgot to tell you that possibly the paperhanger might be here; he was to come one day this week to paper the upper hall."

From A Sweet Little Maid by Blanchard, Amy Ella