"1" . _:b6754422 "1944 November and December, \u201C\"Duplex Roomette\" Sleeping Cars\u201D, in Railway Magazine, page 324:"@en . _:b6754422 "It is realised that the old Pullman standard sleeper, with its convertible \"sections\", each containing upper and lower berths, and with no greater privacy at night than the curtains drawn along both sides of a middle aisle, has had its day."@en . . _:b6754421 . _:b6754420 "A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light."@en . _:b6754422 . _:b6754421 "1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, \u2192OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co.,\u00A0[\u2026], [1933], \u2192OCLC, page 0016:"@en . _:b6754421 "Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire."@en . _:b6754420 .