paperhanger

Example Sentences

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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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In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife.

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He is as busy as the classic one-armed 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.

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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.