Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Lady Astor drove down from London to pay him a visit. "Oh, Nancy," Shaw murmured to his longtime friend as she sat gently stroking the parchment skin on his still defiantly bearded white head, "I want to sleep, to sleep." These quiet words were among the last that voluble Bernard Shaw was heard to speak. When the end came, Shaw met it with a faint quizzical smile that might have been construed as satisfied...
...been flown on to general hospitals near Osaka and Tokyo. But less than half stayed there; most of the rest* went winging across the Pacific. They had a stopover at the Army's Tripler Hospital in Hawaii for a thorough checkup and a couple of nights of vibrationless sleep, and were soon back...
...enough, far but not far enough ... he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the want ads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boardinghouses, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not enough...
Action in the play revolves around the efforts of Athenian and Spartan woman to end the war between the two cities by not going to bed with their husbands. Naturally the men can't fight a war without sleep...
Biscuits and alimentary canals brought him to a discussion of sleep and conditioning. Once a Yale cross-country man, Wilder now limits his training to morning strolls, and afternoon naps. Walking is still his favorite exercise, and he has taken walking trips all over the world. Finding a companion seems to have been his chief trouble: "When I describe a trip to my friends they're all for it" ... emphasis from a waggling forefinger ... "but when it gets right down to it they say, 'Why we could make that in an hour on the train...