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
The ordinary traveler pays $4.38 to make the round trip in a parlor car between Washington and Baltimore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today Branford ranks as the second largest trolley trove in the country, is stocked with 75 cars, ranging from a John Stephenson horsecar, vintage 1893, to a wicker-chaired private parlor car in mint condition.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his seat in the parlor car he was just one more traveler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Walking to board the parlor car, we had passed a dining car toward which he jerked his head, “I used to work on that thing.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
