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.

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I suggested that we go over in the corner and ask God to send us a paperhanger and while we were praying a man came into the mission.

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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."

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

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Up to th' time whin th' top blew off th' stock market, he bought his art out iv th' front window iv a news an' station'ry shop or had it put in be th' paperhanger.

From Observations By Mr. Dooley by Dunne, Finley Peter