paperhanger

Example Sentences

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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.

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.

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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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Just now, he was, as he himself put it, "as busy as a one-armed paperhanger with the hives."

From Bert Wilson on the Gridiron by Duffield, J. W.