paperhanger

"The Paperhanger" was first published in Harper's magazine in 2000, the same year Gay also published his second novel, Provinces of Night, and approximately a year after the publication of his first novel, The Long Home.

One minute Zeineb was playing games and ignoring a quarrel between her mother and the paperhanger about the quality of his work.

Tap the paper all round the rose with a paperhanger's brush and cut off the flaps with a knife.

The paperhanger was stowing away his T square and trowels in his wooden toolbox.

Secretary of HHS illustrates the problem.(12) The claimant was a 50-year-old painter and paperhanger. After injuring his back on the job, he received temporary total disability payments of $269 a week.

The Sixties is packed with memorable snapshots of friends: of Auden, fumbling with his galley pages during a Cambridge poetry reading, "a little like one of those comic paperhanger acts"; of the Wellesley English professors Wilson mistakes "for entomologists who resembled the insects they studie." Budapest is a "spiky and bristling city," with an "element of the goblinesque, the porcupine dome of the parliament house, the ubiquitous unendearing Cupids.

Working-class graffiti were added by Louise DeSalvo's rabble-rousing opening speech to the 1992 conference about the class bias in Woolf's portrait of the one-armed paperhanger in To the Lighthouse; but the various Virginia slyly evaded the class issue and emerged queerly (and triumphantly) from that conference as a lesbian.

Vin was a self-employed paperhanger and painter who graduated from South High School.

"William Gay worked for thirty years as a carpenter, housepainter, and paperhanger before publishing The Long Home" Franklin writes.

Chris Cassidy, 19, is one of three finalists selected by the Painting and Decorating Association to compete in the annual Apprentice Paperhanger of the Year competition.

If you're a novice paperhanger or fall in love with a super-expensive paper, consider hiring a pro.

I am a paperhanger and have over 40 years in the business; I put many magazines on the walls in powder rooms, bathrooms, libraries, etc.

Jonathan Kendall Slentz of The Wallpaper Store answers: "I've heard those stories, too, from customers who thought any paperhanger who advertised must be a professional.

A paperhanger came, and Alfred, who was napping temporarily in the dining room, leaped to his feet like a man with a bad dream.

Levesque was a skilled painter and paperhanger; he worked as a shop foreman of the paint department at Clark University for many years.