Cro-Magnard

1927, “A Polite Lexicon of Cadet Slang,” The Howitzer, The Annual of the United States Corps of Cadets, Published by the Class of 1927, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, p. 505, P.C.S. . . Previous condition of servitude. How a cadet earned his living when he had to work. […] A Plebe with a twenty inch chest and the physique of a canary bird always turns out to be a stevedore, while the horny handed Cro-Magnard with the twenty-four inch biceps invariably breaks down and confesses that he was a bric-a-brac mender in civil life.

1921, Carolyn Wells, Ptomaine Street: A Tale of Warble Petticoat, Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott, Chapter 12, p. 107, Porgie Sproggins. Cave man. Brute. Hulking, enormous, shaggy-haired, prognathous jawed, a veritable Cro-magnard type. Bluely unshaven and scowling.

1921, Louis Untermeyer, Introduction to Anna Wickham, The Contemplative Quarry; and, The Man with a Hammer, New York: Harcourt Brace, p. vii, Woman, as Meredith remarked, will be the last creature tamed by man. To-day, as in the time of the Cro-Magnard cave-dweller, this rebellious companion, half-animal, half-angel, crouches within his walls and remains aloof from them.