paperhanger

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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.

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He was beautifully curved and his black preacher uniform looked as if it had been put on him by a paperhanger.

From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George