Careless People (58 page)

“It's O.K. but my heart tells me”
: A Life in Letters
, p. 95.

“And then there's the Sibyl”
:
Gaius
Petronius,
The Satyricon
, p.80.

The police had a culprit at last
: New York Times
, October 10, 1922.

“We seem to have achieved a state”
:
PUL, Zelda Fitzgerald Papers.

Engalitcheff's death certificate
: New York Hall of Records; author's collection.

“
Everybody said to everybody else
”
:
Zelda Fitzgerald,
Save Me the Waltz, Collected Writings,
p. 49.

“
They went out on a party
”
:
New York
Times
, August 28, 1922.

“
Perhaps the most light on ‘parties'”
:
New York
Times
, June 27, 1922.

“‘The Boozeful and Damned'”
:
“Fitzgerald's Flapper Grows Up,”
Columbus Dispatch,
March 19, 1922. Reprinted in Bryer,
Critical Reception
, p. 97.

“As ‘cocktail,' so I gather”
:
Letter to Blanche Knopf,
A Life in Letters,
p.
135.

“lawless drinker of illegally made”
:
“Are You a Scofflaw?”
Boston Globe
, January 16, 1924.

“exceedingly popular among American prohibition dodgers”
:
Chicago Tribune
, January 27, 1924.

“the night before it went into effect”
:
Ring Lardner,
What of It?
New York: Scribners, 1925, p. 107.

“Month by month, Ring is getting”
:
Tribune
, October 1, 1922.

“Mr. Swope of the
World
”
:
Jonathan Yardley,
Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner
. New York: Random House, 1977, p. 261.

“Herbert Bayard Swope operated a continual”
:
Ben Hecht,
Charlie: The Improbable Life and Times of Charles MacArthur.
New York: Harper & Bros, 1957, p. 96.

“seems inadequate, ineffectual, limp”
:
Burton Rascoe Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.

“happened to be hungry at four”
:
James A. Pegolotti,
Deems Taylor: A Biography
, p. 101.

“framing” of Clifford Hayes
:
New York
Times
, October 11, 1922.

“Truth? We are not trying”
:
ibid.

“shiftless at twenty-three”; “mentally deficient”
:
Daily World
, October 11, 1922.

“has exhibited a willingness”
:
New York
Times
, October 11, 1922.

“abuse”; “stop bothering me”; “Father never wanted”
:
ibid.

“the most despicable that can be”
:
Tribune
, October 22, 1922.

admitted to carrying a .
45
revolver
:
New York
Times
, October 11, 1922.

“he would bring to bear”
:
ibid.

He liked to sing a mock-tragic song
:
Wilson,
Twenties
, p. 164.

“Fitzgerald, Wilson said, composed”
:
Tribune
, March 10, 1923.

“Soon across the space booms”
:
O. O. McIntyre, April 18, 1923
.
PUL, F.
Scott Fitzgerald's scrapbook.

“There was even a recurrent idea”
:
“The Swimmers,”
Short Stories
, p. 506.

“what a skunk I was”
:
New York
Times
, October 13, 1922.

“Happy” Bahmer . . . brought in for questioning
: New York
Times
, October 15, 1922.

The jury decided the homicide was justifiable
:
Tribune
, October 22, 1922.

“considered the height of absurdity”
:
New York Times
, October 13, 1922.

“committed to a correctional facility”
:
New York
Times
, October 25, 1922.

“jauntily out of the courthouse”
:
Kunstler,
The Hall–Mills Murder Case
, p. 71.

“a cartoon carries its story”
:
New York
Times
, October 15, 1922.

radio had added more than three thousand words
:
New York
Times
, August 27, 1926.

sudden explosion of branded goods
: New York
Times
, August 6, 1922.

“the author of the latest best-seller”
:
ibid.

“delete the man who says”
:
A Life in Letters
, July 8, 1925, p. 124.

“Gilda Gray, Ziegfeld Follies beauty”
: Town Topics
, September 28, 1922
.

“I had never seen anything like it”
:
Fitzgerald, “The Dance,” reprinted in
Bits of Paradise,
p.
136.

“prancing into favor”
:
New York
Times
, August 30, 1925.
The New Yorker
similarly noted on August 8, 1925, that New Yorkers were seeking “enlightenment about the intricacies of this newest and most puzzling dance.”

exchange that is said to have originated with Zelda
: West, James L. W., III.
The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love
. 2005. Reprint New York: Random House, 2006
,
p.
96
.

“a driver of many eccentricities”
:
The Beautiful and Damned
. 1922. Reprint Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 141.

Zelda later wrote of their sojurn
:
Zelda Fitzgerald,
Save Me the Waltz, Collected Writings
, p. 54.

driving Max Perkins into a pond
:
Dear Scott, Dear Max,
p.
74.

Posters and badges had been organized
: New York Times
, August 15, 1922.

out of more than four hundred deaths
: New York Times
, October 7, 1922.

IV. A. VEGETABLE DAYS IN NEW YORK
B. MEMORY OF GINEVRA'S WEDDING

a skeleton in a taxicab
:
Wilson,
Twenties,
p.
114.

they ended their festivities at the morgue
: Lloyd Morris,
Incredible New York
, p. 316; Morris gives no source for this anecdote.

“We are established in the above town”
:
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald
, p. 117.

solemnly recorded a list of current slang
:
Wilson,
The Twenties
, p. 102.

“A Lexicon of Prohibition”
:
Edmund Wilson.
The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, and the New Deal.
New York: Doubleday, 1958, p. 89.

“On the Fourth of July”
:
Donald Elder.
Ring Lardner
. New York: Doubleday, 1956, p. 200.

“Tragedy of LIES”
:
World
, October 18, 1922.

“really immoral book”
:
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In His Own Time
. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Jackson R. Bryer, eds. New York: Popular Library, 1971, p. 170.

“from a woman in humble life”
:
New York
Times,
October 18, 1922.

mocking . . . trying to become a literary critic
: World
, October 18, 1922.

“
SLAIN RECTOR AND CHOIR SINGER FOUND
”
:
World
, October 19, 1922.

“Was this the logic”
:
World
, October 20, 1922.

“is the kind of book that certain men”
: New York Times
, October 20, 1922.

“may lead to a further effort”
:
ibid.

“In Chap II of my book”
:
Dear Scott / Dear Max,
p.
85.

“Art invariably grows out of a period”
:
Notebooks
, p. 162.

“no doubt, the best American comedy”
:
Wilson,
Letters
, p. 84.

“modest and self-contained”
: New York Times
, May 26, 1926.

“though no club membership is required for admission”
: New York Times,
January 22, 1922.

“Two months ago they were serving cocktails”
:
O. O. McIntyre, “New York Day By Day,”
Providence News
, October 7, 1922.

“furnished with a sufficient number of chairs”
:
Carl Van Vechten,
Parties: Scenes from Contemporary New York Life
. New York: Knopf, 1930, pp. 28–29.

“When you want something, telephone him”
:
Bruce Kellner.
Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades
. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968, p. 48.

it was the boom, after all
:
The New Yorker
, June 4, 1927.

“loaded down with the cards”
:
Quoted by Harrison Kinney,
Thurber: His Life and Times
, p. 379.

Chemists . . . analyzed the liquor
: Deborah Blum.
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
. New York: Penguin Press, 2010, p. 51.

police raided the White Poodle on Bleecker Street
:
New York
Times,
October 18, 1922.

“were stoned by angry residents
”
:
Times,
October 26, 1922.

“
the intoxication of policemen”
:
New York
Times
, October 16, 1922.

“wine enough flowed to float a battleship”
:
New York
Times,
October 15, 1922.

“Well I've a good mind”
:
Wilson,
The Twenties
, p. 96.

“The curiosity seekers took everything”
:
New York
Times
, October 23, 1922.

“a spectral line against the sky”
: Tribune
, October 26, 1922.

“Fakers from New Brunswick flocked”
: New York Times
, July 19, 1925.

“unearthed some of the choicest bootleggers”
:
PUL, Zelda Fitzgerald Papers.

“Fleischman was making a damn ass of himself”
:
Edmund Wilson.
Discordant Encounters: Plays and Dialogs
.
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1926.
Crime in the Whistler Room
, p. 280.

“Bunny appreciates feeling”
:
Letters,
May 1924.

“to acquire works of art”
:
New York
Times
, April 16, 1922.

Ted Paramore's favorite hangover cures
:
Wilson,
Twenties
, p. 112.

“Most of my friends drank too much”
:
Fitzgerald, “My Lost City,”
The Crack-Up
, p. 30.

“1929:
A feeling that all liquor has been drunk”
:
Fitzgerald, “A Short Autobiography,”
In His Own Time
, p. 223.

“A great many drugstore proprietors”
:
Burton Rascoe,
We Were Interrupted.
New York: Doubleday, 1947, pp. 166–67.

Fitzgerald's . . . recipe for bathtub gin
:
PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers.

“based on a neighbor named Von Guerlach”
:
Horst Kruse. “The Real Jay Gatsby: Max von Gerlach, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Compositional History of
The Great Gatsby
.”
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
(2002): 46.

another cutting of the same photo
:
In his edited version of the scrapbooks,
The Romantic Egoists
, Matthew J. Bruccoli states that this “old sport” clipping is in the Fitzgerald scrapbook, but the clipping in the scrapbook is unsigned. It is not clear where the original clipping that Bruccoli found was from, or what has become of it since.

Levy was known as a fixer
:
Kruse, “The Real Jay Gatsby,” p. 52.

“Gatsby was never quite real to me”
:
Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman, eds.
F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Marketplace: The Auction and Dealer Catalogs, 1935–2006
. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009, p. 4.