subcellar

• “It was really a kind of subcellar reached by a door at the back of the wine cellar.”

  Simon & Schuster: I’ll Walk Alone

• “The “21” Club of the speakeasy era, with its elaborately engineered system for destroying incriminating evidence in the depths of its subcellar, was best memorialized by a rumor originating in the 1950s, when the land directly behind 21 West Fifty-second Street was excavated for construction of a branch of the New York Public Library on Fifty-third Street.”

  Simon & Schuster: LAST CALL

• ““Not into a police court . . . but into whatever is in the subcellar under a police court.””

  Simon & Schuster: LAST CALL

• “At one time the staff elevator could descend to this subcellar level.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Atlantis Prophecy

• “Bill Clinton's 60% approval rating should not have been a shield against impeachment any more than Dubya's subcellar ratings should be a reason to impeach (as if another reason were needed).”

  Rebuttals to Reasons NOT to Impeach

• “They found a service elevator with an open shaft below and figured that, if desperate, they could rappel down into a subcellar and find a subway tunnel out.”

  Sept.11 hero story

• “It had been dug out of the solid earth, and its existence evidently accounted for the heaps of dirt in the subcellar.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “At about thirty-five feet from the subcellar there was a sharp turn -- he thought at first it was the end of the tunnel -- then the passage straightened out again, and there was another fifteen or twenty feet, growing smaller and smaller as he went forward.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “There he found another door -- a door to the subcellar, standing open a scant few inches.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

• “And then straight back to the entrance of the subcellar he went.”

  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

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