paperhanger

Example Sentences

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He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

All of which the paperhanger listened to in thoughtful silence and then told a tale.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman