asbestos curtain

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I know there was an asbestos curtain in the theater and that it was used.

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.

Before we had left the boxes the fire had spread to the first row of seats and the stage hands were endeavoring to lower the asbestos curtain.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various

What was called by employees in the house the asbestos curtain, and also in several theaters in Chicago, has written on it, 'asbestos curtain.'

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various