At one point, the smell of laundry drifted into the dining room, a whiff of steerage.

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Doubtless he had decided that it was outrageous for me to fly steerage, sound chap that he was.

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Palmer himself waxes poetic about the Irish Stew and Jig dancing he plans to experience while slumming in the steerage.

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There was very little wind, which made steerage even harder, he added.

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Stieglitz himself never travelled steerage on his annual trips back to Europe, where, in Paris in 1905, he saw art by Matisse and Picasso, among others, that made him feel as though he were discovering a new world.

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" Steerage passengers who were missing were not listed, but among those lost from the first- or second-class cabins were five exiled nuns, whose misspelled names were given as "Barbara Hilkenschmidt, Henrico Tassbander, Lorbela Reenkober, Aurea Radjura, and Brigella Dambard.

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Fifteen years ago, the movie's class-war theme -- the swells in their tuxedoes lounging amid the Titanic's creamy classical splendor, versus the lugs in steerage, led by Leonardo DiCaprio's penniless rapscallion bohemian Jack -- seemed a fairly standard old-movie trope.

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