Word: tussaud
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...must to all men, death came in England last week to John Theodore Tussaud (pronounced Tuss-so'), 86, great grandson and successor to Madame Marie Tussaud, who brought the famed Tussaud waxworks from Paris to England...
Into Mme. Tussaud's, famed London waxworks, went the parents of the late Air Ace Paddy Finucane to look at their son's image, found it had "not quite caught the look," spoke to the management, which promptly decided a ?100 remodeling job was in order...
...figures ready to join the waxen ranks of the great in Mme. Tussaud's in London, world's most famed waxworks: General Douglas MacArthur, Sir Stafford Cripps, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek...
...ones who can show the young ones what to do." Grimy workers coming off duty shook hands with their King. "I hope you don't mind my dirty hands," said one. His Majesty didn't. In Marylebone they stopped to see the wreck of Mme. Tussaud's waxworks...
...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...