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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In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.
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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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I'll apprentice myself to a paperhanger, and learn to paper my rooms with my worthless railway shares.
From Banzai! by Parabellum by Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich