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
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
Everything but the structural members was of wood; the roller on the asbestos curtain, the pulleys, all of a cheap compromise.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
At the American Academy of Music, in Philadelphia, the underwriters went so far as to offer a reduction of one per cent. per annum provided an asbestos curtain was placed in the house.
From Asbestos Its production and use, with some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Jones, Robert H.
The man who gave the first reliable explanation of the failure of the "asbestos" curtain to operate properly was John C. Massoney, a carpenter, who was working as a scene shifter.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
