paperhanger

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

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Benjamin Twaddle, a 66-year-old paperhanger from Lynn, was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston four years ago, with advanced cancer of the prostate which had spread widely through his body.

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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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Didn't I send a paperhanger to you with patterns?

From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor