Crossword clues for skippy
Wiktionary
a. Having an upbeat rhythm, suitable to skip to.
Wikipedia
Skippy is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film. The screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, and Sam Mintz was based on the comic strip Skippy by Percy Crosby.
The film stars Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green and Jackie Searl. Director Norman Taurog won the Academy Award for Directing (at age 32, he remains the youngest winner in this category). The film also did well enough to inspire a sequel called Sooky (1931). The film was released on April 5, 1931, by Paramount Pictures. For his performance, Cooper, at the age of nine, also became the youngest person to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
This film was going to be one of Universal's first Manufacture on Demand (MOD) titles, but was withdrawn from retail sale without explanation. It has yet to be announced as an MOD title.
Skippy is a brand of peanut butter manufactured in the USA. First sold in 1932, Skippy is currently manufactured by Hormel Foods, which bought the brand from Unilever in 2013.
It is the best-selling brand of peanut butter in China and second only to The J.M. Smucker Company's Jif brand worldwide.
Skippy (also known as Asta, born 1931 or 1932; retired 1941) was a Wire Fox Terrier dog actor who appeared in dozens of movies during the 1930s. Skippy is best known for the role of the pet dog "Asta" in the 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Due to the popularity of the role, Skippy is sometimes credited as Asta in public and in other films.
Skippy was an American comic strip written and drawn by Percy Crosby that was published from 1923 to 1945. A highly popular, acclaimed and influential feature about rambunctious fifth-grader Skippy Skinner, his friends and his enemies, it was adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show. It was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp and was the basis for a wide range of merchandising that includes Skippy peanut butter.
An early influence on cartoonist Charles Schulz and an inspiration for his Peanuts, Skippy is considered one of the classics of the form. In Vanity Fair, humorist Corey Ford described it as "America's most important contribution to humor of the century", while comics historian John A. Lent wrote, "The first half-century of the comics spawned many kid strips, but only one could be elevated to the status of classic... which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson..." Comics artist Jerry Robinson said,
Skippy started in 1923 as a cartoon in Life and became a syndicated comic strip two years later through King Features Syndicate. Creator Crosby retained the copyright, a rarity for comic strip artists of the time.
Skippy is a window management tool for X11 similar to Mac OS X's Exposé feature. It is a fullscreen task switcher that allows a user to quickly see open windows by two different sets of criteria, or to hide all windows and show the desktop without the need to click through many windows to find a specific target. Skippy-XD is a branch that provides 'live' (and updating) snapshots of the windows.
Skippy may refer to:
- Skippy (nickname), a list of people
- Skippy (peanut butter), an American brand
Skippy was an American children's radio serial based on the popularity of the comic strip Skippy. It was broadcast on CBS Radio from January 11, 1932 to March 29, 1935.
Skippy has been called the first radio serial for children, though the radio serial Little Orphan Annie (1930-...) has also been given that honorific title.
Skippy is the nickname of:
People:
- Skippy Baxter (1919-2012), American figure skater
- Skippy Blair (born 1924), American dance instructor
- David Browning (1931-1956), American diver and 1952 Olympic champion
- Milt Byrnes (1916-1979), American Major League Baseball player
- Skippy Hamahona (born 1975), New Zealand former field hockey player
- Geoff Huegill (born 1979), Australian swimmer
- Gregory Messam (born 1973), Jamaican football defender
- Pat Morley (footballer) (born 1965), Irish former footballer
- David Parsons (racing driver) (born 1959), Australian retired racing driver
- Skippy Roberge (1917-1993), American Major League Baseball player
- William "Skippy" Rohan (1871-1916), American gangster
- Skippy Whitaker (1930-1990), American collegiate basketball player
- Skippy Williams (1916–1994), American jazz saxophonist
Fictional characters:
- Irwin "Skippy" Handelman, a recurring character on the American TV series Family Ties
Usage examples of "skippy".
Galen supposed God should be thanking the bishop for not inflicting Skippy on His innocent believers.
Still, Skippy looked a treat in his flowing robes, until one smelled the liquor on his breath, and he had not been arrested once since joining the Church.
He was fully familiar with the house, having dragged a stuporous, senseless Skippy up those same back stairs to his rooms many a time.
The sun was almost up by the time Skippy finished with the papers, and folks in this neighborhood would be starting off to work.
That way if we decide we cannot suit, I am sure a large enough donation to the church will convince the bishop that Skippy filled out the papers incorrectly, and the marriage can be annulled.
The fact that the funeral was for one of the noble patrons of Epsom Downs, and the tribute was in the form of a horseshoe, had not fazed Skippy for an instant.
Galen was about to thank him, when Skippy ruined all of his good intentions by dropping to one knee and proposing to the bride.
I will have Fenning deny me to any callers except your friend Skippy Skidmore.
He turned back to Skippy without hearing a word of the drama on the stage.
Fenning himself was going to sit in the family box, beside Skippy Skidmore.
She went off to the theater with Ella and Skippy and Ruff, confident the young woman would be content with the latest novel, the daily papers, the finely tuned pianoforte.
She thought she might have the wrong box, but there was Skippy Skidmore with her sister-in-law, tossing her roses.
Margot angrily told Skippy that he, at least, ought to have known better.
Why, I had to make Skippy stop at a chop house on the way to the theater, I was that famished.
Did you know, Skippy tried to tell me women rarely eat in such places?