Word: third-class
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...mentioned that the King and Queen of Nepal had to be accommodated in a third-class hotel...
...city's hotels were swamped. Only five hotels (mostly of prewar vintage) are rated first-class, and their 760 rooms all have waiting lists. On their way to visit President Eisenhower in Washington last month, the King and Queen of Nepal had to put up in a third-class hotel. In third-class hotels (and even in second-class), bell boys freely peddle the services of call girls. Another traveler, in desperation, spent the night at the Shanghai Bathhouse and Massage Parlor near the airport, emerged next day declaring he felt so "soft boiled and beaten to a pulp...
...lawyer). Maria and I-"We love each other, but in God's name there is nothing of a sexual nature." Would he replace Callas' husband, Giovanni Meneghini, as the soprano's manager? "No," said the humble Midas. "My place is in the audience in a third-class seat. I am a mariner." With that, the sly, grizzled sea dog sailed off with his companion on a ten-day cruise through the islands of the Aegean...
...matter of course, he made the Porcellian Club. Summers he traveled abroad, became expert at living like a first-class passenger on a third-class ticket. On one voyage, he ingratiated himself with Boxing Manager Joe ("I should have stood in bed") Jacobs before the ship left the dock, spent most of the trip playing poker on A-deck with Jacobs, Max Schmeling and Morton Downey. In his sophomore year Alec decided summer trips were too short, set out to get his degree in three years, didn't quite make it (he lacked one-half unit), but managed...
...subject of the Reina del Pacifico and her grounding off Bermuda: in referring to certain passengers' proceeding by alternative .routes to the United Kingdom, you stated [July 22] that the third-class passengers who asked for air passages were told that they could go ahead-at their own expense. This, we would mention, is a gross inaccuracy, as all passengers, first, cabin and third, were informed that alternative means of transportation would be secured for them if they so wished and that this would be entirely at the expense of this company. By far the greater percentage of passengers...