paperhanger
Example Sentences
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He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.
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.
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
A young girl said her paperhanger husband had a hard time finding a job because of paper-mill shutdowns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then the smiling paperhanger worked with astonishing rapidity and said that he didn't object in the least to having four pairs of bright eyes watch from the doorway every strip go into place.
From Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin
