paperhanger
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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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He had come to office just 33 days after Adolf Hitler, the Austrian paperhanger, had taken over Germany.
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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 lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.
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Now just imagine, that as a paperhanger I should have taken it into my head to become a Wagner singer!
From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various
