paperhanger

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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)