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Word: mcgiver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anybody was born. In his old age Mr. Abbott has grown permissive towards arm-waving and other forms of over-acting, but nobody can deny that he keeps things fairly lively. Among his hired hands, Paul Hartman is disappointing as the septuxorial playboy, but a tubby gent named John McGiver, playing the foggiest of Mr. Poston's employers, takes up some of the slack by being funny both drunk and sober...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Drink to Me Only | 9/27/1958 | See Source »

...love to his wife (Martha Scott) in the daytime. He also tries his hand at baking brownies, urges a drab, neglected neighbor's wife to turn slinky, encourages a job-weary laundryman to rebel, gets a lady writer to turn soulful. When the boss (amusingly played by John McGiver) comes after him. he agrees to go back to work, but quickly quits again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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