paperhanger

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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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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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A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.

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

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I wanted to show them our red plush furniture, and the trumpet-blowing cherubs the German paperhanger had put on our parlour ceiling.

From My Antonia by Cather, Willa Sibert