Word: caveman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friendships with cannibals and tribes openly committed to the exclusion of whites. He had a good ear for their dialects, which he learned, and a nice inquiring eye for aboriginal customs. In one tribe he found what must have been the simplest form of courtship and marriage short of caveman seizure. The boy picked his girl, left a goat in front of her father's hut and got his wife. No words spoken, no fuss, no marriage ceremony. And if the bridegroom was too poor to own a goat, a bundle of firewood did the trick...
...modern dress. In 31 pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner [Mrs. Shaw No. 3] down a flight of stairs, and said that it improved their marriage considerably. He told me that he had kicked Ava Gardner [Mrs. Shaw No. 5] several times and that she had 'responded nobly.' " Kathleen...
...couple of years ago, when he was running for office, Alabama's caveman Governor James E. Folsom was struck spang in the middle of a speech, couldn't rightly put one word after another. His roving eye had fastened on a fine figure of a woman in the crowd. He found out later that her name was Jamelle Moore, and that her daddy worked for the state. Jim courted her off & on, when he wasn't kissing other women...
...Literary Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...
Like most contemporary primitives, Litwak is a far less sophisticated artist than the Cro-Magnon whose paintings, the earliest known, were found in a cave at Altamira,. Spain. The caveman's graceful, seemingly off-hand study of a charging bison was obviously true to life but Litwak's view of the Metropolitan Museum (see cut) is just as obviously a cockeyed, childlike impression, painted with the cramped, awkward care of an adult artisan. Explains Artist Litwak, whose colors are as hot and heavy as a fur coat in June: "I must have everything correct, just...