Word: golders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heartbreak House. Last week, with George Bernard Shaw sitting by her bedside at their home in Whitehall Court, London, death came to Charlotte Shaw. Three days later she was cremated at Golder's Green crematorium, with Shaw, his secretary and Lady Astor the only attendants. At the funeral of Mrs. H. G. Wells, 16 years before, Shaw had told Wells to enter the furnace room. "It's beautiful," he said. "I saw my mother burnt there. You'll be glad if you go." Wells went and returned to say: "It was indeed very beautiful...