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

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

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He had come to office just 33 days after Adolf Hitler, the Austrian paperhanger, had taken over Germany.

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It was finished by the following night, for no paperhanger could have had the heart to linger over his work with so many anxious eyes following every movement.

From Dandelion Cottage by Rankin, Carroll Watson