paperhanger

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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)