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

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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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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