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

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

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So the paperhanger was visited and Dolly chose a lovely paper of striped pattern, but all white; to be crowned with a border design of hanging vines and leaves in shades of green.

From Two Little Women by Wells, Carolyn