Word: skeezix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Supreme Court of the U. S. declared Eugene Meyer winner. The Post celebrated its victory with a six-column cartoon showing an imposing robed figure (Supreme Court) sternly pointing to a facsimile of the Post's front page, toward which Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Skeezix & family, Dick Tracy obediently trudged. Caption: "To Your Post...
Most notable violator of that rule is Frank O. King, who draws "Gasoline Alley" for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Fourteen years ago grey-haired Cartoonist King singled out his favorite character, fat Bachelor Walt Wallet, surprised him one morning with a fondling infant on his doorstep. Thus Skeezix. As years rolled by Frank King let Skeezix grow out of babyhood. Meanwhile Walt had become prosperous, married his comely neighbor Phyllis Blossom. With careful delicacy Cartoonist King shielded her form and feelings during pregnancy until, six years ago, Baby Corkleigh ("Corky") was born to the Wallets. While Skeezix lengthened into gangling...
...entrust my baby to you, confident it will be cherished and cared for. I know all about Skeezix . . . and the love and devotion he has had at your hands for long years. . . . There is nowhere else in the world I would leave such a treasure...
...take on such a responsibility." But no reader who knew his comic strips expected for an instant that the baby would wind up in an orphanage. Also, since "Anguished Mother" stuck to the neuter gender in referring to "it," all odds pointed to a foster-sister for Skeezix & Corky...