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
He flitted off, and the stage-director leaned back against the asbestos curtain.
From Jill the Reckless by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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
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
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
