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  • We had two goals, a movie at the AMC on Van Ness and Chinese food from Wing Lum's on Polk.

    Passing Dave Hingsburger 2006

  • We had two goals, a movie at the AMC on Van Ness and Chinese food from Wing Lum's on Polk.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Dave Hingsburger 2006

  • You see, we were at a Lum's restaurant — which I remember fondly not only for their PB&Js, but their cut-out kids menus with perforated cardboard.

    The Secret Of My Success: Intertwining Plot Lines foxfur 2005

  • "Still, that doesn't explain Lum's presence here, unless he has followed us, seeking revenge."

    Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • Lum Bangs, in a sudden impulse of rage, pulled the trigger and fired point blank at Lieutenant Wingate, but the young mountaineer's warning to him, at the critical moment, had drawn Lum's thoughts from his aim, and his bullet missed its mark.

    Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • (Yawning and putting down the deck of cards) Lum's sho

    The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Langston Hughes 1934

  • To be sure, Lum's eyes did swerve once when the preacher spoke of marriage -- swerved from where the women sat to where sat the men -- to young Jake Kilburn, called Devil Jake, a name of which he was rather proud; for Martha's eyes had swerved to him too, and Jake shot back a killing glance and began twisting his black mustache.

    In Happy Valley John Fox 1891

  • She handed Pleasant one of the towels, dropped her little watch into Lum's huge palm, and on second thought took it back again: it might get broken, and Lum might be too busy to keep time.

    In Happy Valley John Fox 1891

  • Lum's great forearm eased, the bellows flattened with a long, slow wheeze, and he went to the door and looked after her.

    In Happy Valley John Fox 1891

  • One night in a raging storm the door of Captain Lum's cabin was thrown open, and a sailor appeared fresh from the water.

    Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

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