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 threw kilfire on the burning curtain but saw it did not stop the blaze and yelled to those below to lower the asbestos curtain.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various

Incidentally Murray said that the ferrule along the bottom of the "asbestos" curtain was of wood, and not iron.

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.

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