Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show up for the St. Patrick's Day parade or the opening day at Lincoln Downs, but this time they were waiting for the Democratic nominee for president. They smoked their cigars just the same and they talked ward politics as usual, and only when the sound of the train became too loud did they straighten their coat collars and snuff out their cigars...
...train was a long one, about 15 cars long, and it stopped very gently. The reporters and photographers waiting on the platform rushed alongside the last car. A host of functionaries came out on the rear platform and then Governor Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois appeared with his youngest son, John. A small pathway to the speaker's stand had been cleared by the police, but the photographers closed about the governor, pushing their cameras in his face. The governor smiled forgivingly and walked rapidly to the speaker's stand where, after a short introduction, he began to address...
Flannagan was in the diner, finishing lunch. He promised us an interview with Arthur Schlesinger and handed us each a big white button reading "Stevenson Press-Campaign Train." "These will get you anywhere except the last car--the Governor's car," he said. We thanked him and wandered off through the train...
Stevenson's speech had just ended and the reporters traveling with the train began scrambling aboard. The press car, a coach with all scats removed and typing desks substituted, sounded like a locker-room between the halves of a close football game as the reporters rushed in to copy down their notes on Stevenson's reception in Pittsfield. On the window alongside each reporter's desk was placed the banner of the newspaper he represented. The Philadelphia Bulletin leaned across the aisle and said to the San Francisco Chronicle, "One of his best, on?" The Chronicle man nodded happily...
Near the end of the train was a club car in which all the pols who had gotten aboard in Pittsfield were clustered...