Word: swashing
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Outside on the apron, MacWilliams walked up to his silver twin-engine C-46-one of seven being readied for take-off-and rubbed his finger on its heavy underbelly. "Frost," he said. He called for a crew of men with long-handled mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring...
...place. The widow, Gene Tierney of course, is beset by all sorts of worries from beginning to end. She has no money to pay for the rent, so the captain dictates the story of his life to her, which she has published under the appropriate title of "Blood and Swash." Another time she is left in the lurch in timehonored tradition by a smooth apple of a cad. played with spirit by George Sanders. The Tierney trips through all her troubles unobtrusively enough, mouthing her dialogue in a soft, damp voice, while Rex Harrison, rough, bluff, and sentimental, steals...
...Smooth. "Another striking thing is the prose style of the advertisements, an extraordinary mixture of sheer lushness with clipped and sometimes very expensive technical jargon. Words like suave-mannered, custom-finished, contour-conforming, mitt-back, innersole, backdip, midriff, swoosh, swash, curvaceous, slenderize and pet-smooth are flung about with evident full expectation that the reader will understand them at a glance...
Sparing no expense, RKO has contrived to get this fancy swash buckled with enthusiasm and good taste...
Probably not since the days of the first transatlantic flyers had an air hop started with such a swash of publicity. The Army Air Transport Command, inaugurating weekly round-the-world flights, took along a reporter from all three press associations...