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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the ballroom set, where the flats or walls were all in place, an unexcited paperhanger was busy with the paraphernalia of his craft, somehow looking out of his element in this reign of pandemonium.

From The Film Mystery by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)