Head and Shoulders (short story)

Also Known As: Nest Feathers

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald

Type: Short Story

Found in: Flappers and Philosophers
Found in: The Short Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald

Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Diary

Head and Shoulders is a 1920 short story by American author F Scott Fitzgerald. - AsNotedIn

In 1915 Horace Tarbox was thirteen years old. In that year he took the examinations for entrance to Princeton University and received the Grade A -- excellent -- in Caesar, Cicero, Vergil, Xenophon, Homer, Algebra, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, and Chemistry.
F Scott Fitzgerald, Head and Shoulders

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People

Herbert Spencer, Member you told me you were such a trick gymnast once that they tried to get you out for the team in college and they couldn't because you had a standing date with Herb Spencer?
Nabisco, Answer - she was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and up to a year ago she got the right to breathe by pushing Nabiscoes in Marcel's tea-room in Trenton.
Rudyard Kipling, Her apartment was very warm--small, it was, with a row of professional pictures and sets of Kipling and O Henry which she had bought once from a blue-eyed agent and read occasionally.
William Sydney Porter, Her apartment was very warm--small, it was, with a row of professional pictures and sets of Kipling and O Henry which she had bought once from a blue-eyed agent and read occasionally.

Places

Central Harlem, They took a flat in Harlem.
Manhattan NYC, New York City She saw him when she took her first glance at the restless Manhattan audience--down in the front row with his head bent a bit forward and his gray eyes fixed on her.
Palais Royal, Connie's Inn and Cotton Club site, New York City In two days we landed a job at Divinerries', and I learned to shimmy from a kid at the Palais Royal.
Princeton University, Princeton My father was a young economics professor at Princeton.
Yale University, New Haven, CT How afterward they founded Yale College there, to try the musical comedies on, is a story every one knows.

Food

Ginger Ale Soda Pop
Welsh Rarebit Dairy

Timeline

Y/M/D		Association	Description	Event
1919/11/00	F Scott Fitzgerald	Author	Harold Ober at Reynolds agency takes F Scott Fitzgerald on as a client based on unsolicited stories FSF mailed him. Harold Ober's first sale is "Nest Feathers" to The Saturday Evening Post for $400. About three times what the Smart Set pays FSF.
1920/02/21	The Saturday Evening Post	Publisher	"Head and Shoulders" is published in The Saturday Evening Post.
1920/02/24	F Scott Fitzgerald	Groom	I HAVE SOLD THE MOVIE RIGHTS OF HEAD AND SHOULDERS TO THE METRO COMPANY FOR TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS I LOVE YOU DEAREST GIRL. - FSF telegram to Zelda in Montgomery, Alabama	Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald
1920/03/00	Zelda Fitzgerald	Bride	With the proceeds from 'Head and Shoulders', Scott buys Zelda a $600 platinum and diamond wristwatch which he sends to her. "O, Scott, its so be-au-ti-ful" - Zelda letter to Scott	Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald
1920/06/00	F Scott Fitzgerald	Author	The original title of "Head and Shoulders" was 'The Prodigy' and I just brought in the chorus girl by way of a radical contrast. Before I'd finished she almost stole the story. - FSF letter to Movie Weekly on the source of "The Chorus Girl's Romance"

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Particulars for Head and Shoulders (short story):
Narrative Arts	Comedy, Humor	the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.
Attribute	Diaphanous	(especially of fabric) light, delicate, and translucent.
Narrative Arts	Fiction	prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Other Description	Liniment	a liquid or lotion, especially one made with oil, for rubbing on the body to relieve pain.
Narrative Arts	Narrative	an account of connected events
Narrative Arts	Prose	ordinary written language
Art Type	Short Story	short form narrative fiction

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Original Language:	English

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