parlor car

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Or is it the soft, steady voice of the stranger in the train’s parlor car, telling a story to the boy’s father?

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2015

In a parlor car on the same train, rode New York's bald, kindly Governor Herbert Lehman, glad to be unnoticed.

From Time Magazine Archive

So fond was he of appearing in the public limelight that he lived with all the pomp and ceremony of royalty, even traveling in the Kaiser Karl's private parlor car, which he bought.

From Time Magazine Archive

While motorists on the single major highway are bumper to bumper, passengers can recline in the velvety Presidential parlor car, built in 1925.

From Time Magazine Archive

They came up, hand in hand, from the other side of the Wabash tracks and scrambled aboard the open platform at the back of the parlor car.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck