Word: broguish
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Gouge-as-Gouge-Can. The Giant's House is an old-fashioned gouge-as-gouge-can story of business success. An immigrant boy from Ireland, John Horgan has clobbered his way to the top of a chain of supermarkets. Brutal, foulmouthed, yet strangely charming in his roguish, broguish way, he keeps his junior executives underpaid and forever conscious that they must undersell the rival A & P. Horgan's law is that "you never know where bottom is until you probe for it." In one hilariously horrible probing match with Horgan Co., a pudgy little enamelware dealer seems lucky...
...cannot get married because they cannot find a place to live. In fact, the young man's bachelor quarters are a treetop in Central Park-the first intimation that Heaven on Earth aims to be as cute as all hell. It gets colossally so when a roguish, broguish cabbie named James Aloysius McCarthy (Peter Lind Hayes) sets up as fairy godfather to the lovers. Slow-paced and ponderous, Heaven on Earth combines the elfin and the elephantine...
Young Miss O'Brien, speaking her broguish lines with considerable skill, plays an Irish orphan who has the monumental task of softening up three wealthy, crotchety old men (Banker Edward Arnold, Doctor Lionel Barrymore, Judge Lewis Stone). She owns a piece of property containing an ancient oak tree, which happens to be the home of her friends, the Wee People. Her three selfish, unimaginative guardians want to get rid of the property, uproot the tree. And dispossess the pixies? Not as long as Margaret and her sweet old drunken manservant (Thomas Mitchell) can prevent...
Well to the left of both are the three Independent Labor Party members, most notable of whom is broguish John ("Jock") McGovern, 54, a bull-tempered Scottish Socialist who believes that Dictator Stalin has long since sold Karl Marx and the Workers of the World down the river; who once, when Stalin arrested some Indian Communists as Trotskyists, lambasted Communist Gallacher as "a creature so completely under the thumb of Moscow that he does not dare to stand up and defend British subjects...
Fibber's garrulous tarradiddles, the broguish comeuppances Molly metes out to him, the dated didos of his numerous stooges, are as familiar as the pattern of the living-room rug. Fibber is an incorrigible blowhard, but a game guy to boot. With nonpareil confidence, he tries his luck at anything, from barbering to running an army...