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

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

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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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"By the way, Dimple, I forgot to tell you that possibly the paperhanger might be here; he was to come one day this week to paper the upper hall."

From A Sweet Little Maid by Blanchard, Amy Ella