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Word: tussaud (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summers to draw. So was the Gothic House of Lords-by an incendiary bomb, the fire from which was doused by Members of Parliament. Dingy Whitehall, the administrative hub of the Empire, and Downing Street, a famous address of power, were targets. So was the Tate gallery. Madame Tussaud's waxworks were shaken, and though Admiral Beatty lost the nose which survived Jutland, Hitler and Mussolini stared on uncrumbled. The slums whose names are nevertheless music to the Empire's poverty-stricken-Limehouse (after ancient limekilns), The Minories (pronounced minneries, after Nuns Minoresses), Elephant & Castle (after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Softer, Softer, Softer | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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