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

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

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

In the parlor car someone roused the Senator from the exhausted sleep that had seized him as soon as he had boarded the train in Chicago one hour and 15 minutes earlier.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had ridden to Philadelphia in reserved parlor car seats.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey