With low inexorable thumps, an escalator drew arriving passengers down beneath the floor.
The houses also served as cemeteries: The dead were buried beneath the floor.
Another buildings official, Tony Sclafani, said the support beams beneath the floor buckled.
A madman with super-acuity murders an old man and entombs the corpse beneath the floor.
Cooking is done beneath the floor, to prevent the clatter of pots and pans.
The special ingredient rises from beneath the floor, like the Phantom of the Opera's organ, in dark expressionist lighting.
They should be spaced six to eight feet apart, he said, "and connected to the joists beneath the floor".
Dec. 25, 1951, a bomb hidden beneath the floor under the Moores' bed exploded while they were asleep.
Beneath the floor of worship is a mausoleum, with 6,000 crypts and niches for cremated remains.
It was a Mesoamerican custom to bury a dead person beneath the floor of his own house, which was often then abandoned by the bereaved.
Vaporizerlike machines softly emit the fragrance from beneath the floor levels of the stand so subtly that many visitors will not notice it.
