paperhanger
Example Sentences
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In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.
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
He is as busy as the classic one-armed paperhanger.
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."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a paperhanger among other things, and a great pair of shears had been lying on the table.
From Manslaughter by Miller, Alice Duer
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