asbestos curtain

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The big asbestos curtain hushed all that and the Metropolitan's regular season was ended.

From Time Magazine Archive

A big iron asbestos curtain is worked by a lever in the "prop" corner on the prompter's side.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various

Mrs. Gibson, wife of Dr. Charles B. Gibson, confirmed Mrs. Schweitzler's assertions that no asbestos curtain was visible from the audience.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various

This he proposed to accomplish by means of an asbestos curtain which, on being dropped, would at once become rigid with the wall on either side.

From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Jones, Robert H.

He flitted off, and the stage director leaned back against the asbestos curtain.

From The Little Warrior by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)