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

Both asserted that the draft or suction caused the asbestos curtain to stick.

From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various

The fireman and electrician then ordered down the asbestos curtain, and the fireman threw the contents of another tube of kilfire upon the flame, with no better result.

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.