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
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.
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.
The witness testified that when he reached the stage after attending to his engines, the "asbestos" curtain was caught part way down.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
When Foy said this I regained my senses, and when the asbestos curtain did not come down I felt that the situation was critical.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
