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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He is as busy as the classic one-armed 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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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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I'll apprentice myself to a paperhanger, and learn to paper my rooms with my worthless railway shares.
From Banzai! by Parabellum by Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich