paperhanger

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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."

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

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

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 the ballroom set, where the flats or walls were all in place, an unexcited paperhanger was busy with the paraphernalia of his craft, somehow looking out of his element in this reign of pandemonium.

From The Film Mystery by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)