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Word: minto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second son of a Belfast lawyer, Lewis never quite recovered from the death of his mother when he was nine. After graduating from Oxford, he predictably became a teacher there. Less expectably, he began to live with Janie ("Minto") Moore, who had been deserted by her husband; she was Lewis' senior by 25 years. Initially lovers, or so Wilson speculates, they settled into a surrogate mother-son relationship after their unorthodox menage was joined by Lewis' elder brother Warren, who had been cashiered from the army for alcoholism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love's Labor | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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