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.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 wanted to show them our red plush furniture, and the trumpet-blowing cherubs the German paperhanger had put on our parlour ceiling.

From My Antonia by Cather, Willa Sibert