1930's French P.M. LГ©on

Usage examples of blum.

Paul Blum doesn't know anything about our-er-mill operation, but it was through him we got the jobs at the gatehouse.

Docker and Markel had been approached several months before by Blum who tipped them off to good-paying jobs at the Elekton gatehouse.

As soon as he and Markel had obtained the jobs, Blum had instructed them to buy the truck secondhand in another state, and told them only that Markel was to lend Blum the truck on a certain day when notified, let him through the gate, then out again soon after closing time.

The Hardys noticed that Paul Blum appeared startled at Docker's words.

It had been Blum himself who had driven the truck into the grounds and placed the dynamite in the laboratory.

Frank had tackled Blum, and Joe was wrestling with Docker on the beach.

While Blum and the counterfeiters stood in sullen silence, the four boys learned that Ken had called the chief just minutes after Fenton Hardy had left in the police launch in pursuit of Paul Blum.

Once upon a time, you see, there had been a lonely eighteen-year-old girl named Patricia Blum who had been refused entry to the after-prom party that was held at the country club in the upstate town of Glointon, New York.

She has barely begun telling Betty Blum how grateful she is for the ride not to mention the company when she is pulled about by her elbow and scolded so loudly for going off without taking the mail -- so unfairly -- that the world is suddenly billowing silent about her, all the street sounds ceasing, the hens not clucking, the kids not chattering on the rooftop, the mariachi not pumping his accordion.

Betty Blum begins to take blame and croon apologies in the familiar catty pussyfooting of one browbeaten señora coming to the defense of another.

When he looks back, Betty Blum extends him brown-eyed condolences over the salty rim of her margarita, as if to advise, Don't let her mess with your mind.

Metal wailed and it came away with him as Blum, more conventional, pulled the lever on his own door to disengage the latching mechanism, twisted, and shouldered it open.

The detective explained that further sleuthing had led to Jordan -and through him, Paul Blum.

A tank driver from Kfar Blum with both legs smashed told me it's all over, the government's lying, the Syrians and the Iraqis will be in Haifa tomorrow, and it'll be a big massacre.