Word: ayot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contemporary England, who discover that there is no one to depend on and for whom the mere mechanics of living have become tragically difficult. At the illness of a servant during the blitz, he and his sick wife had been obliged to leave the famous, ugly old Rectory at Ayot St. Lawrence and live among the bombs in London...
...Nancy." The end that came so peacefully and quietly to Bernard Shaw, in bed at Ayot St. Lawrence last week, was not unwelcome. "I am longing for my eternal rest," Shaw told a friend just after his 94th birthday. The broken thighbone that sent Shaw into the hospital when he slipped and fell in his garden last September had shown signs of knitting better than his doctors dared hope, but the Shavian spirit was broken for good. When Shaw guessed that he might live only to become a bedridden invalid, he lost interest in the business...
...Atheist, Irish. In the tiny (pop. 110) village where Shaw had spent the last 44 years of his life, however, the parting amenities were those due an old man and a kindly neighbor. With the subject of their prayers gone beyond protest, a few Ayot neighbors, family servants and the daughter of a local publican gathered in Shaw's parlor for a brief service read by the local Anglican pastor, the Reverend R. J. Davies. "Mr. Shaw was not really an atheist," Pastor Davies said later, "I would call him rather an Irishman...
...succumbed in his cottage in Ayot St. Lawrence, England, after a day-long coma and a "commendatory prayer for a sick person at the point of departure," read by a Church of England rector for the one-time professed atheist...
...Bernard Shaw wrote in 1946, "one of the unpleasant things seems to be that your legs give in before your head does, and you are always stumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week quite regularly . . ." Fortnight ago, while walking in the garden of his home at Ayot St. Lawrence in Hertfordshire, the 94-year-old playwright fell and broke his left thigh bone. Carted off to Luton and Dunstable Hospital, he soon got into an argument about his 74-year-old once-red beard, which the anesthetists wanted snipped. Shaw won by having the offending whiskers plastered...