The Jelly-Bean

In United States slang in the 1910s and early 1920s a "Jellybean" or "Jelly-Bean" was a young man who dressed stylishly to attract women but had little else to recommend him; similar to the older terms dandy and fop and the slightly later drugstore cowboy. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story about such a character, The Jelly-Bean in 1920. Originally published in the periodical The Metropolitan, this story was first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922. Francis Scott Key Fit...