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.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A paperhanger studied the wall-paper with a professional eye while he appropriated his cards.

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