Word: iguana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each maker chooses some particular exotic ingredient to capture the imagination of the beauty-seeking public. Amor Skin is advertised as "a new scientific discovery to rejuvenate the skin." Originally, it included a substance extracted from the skin of very young iguana lizards. But as the demand grew, young iguana lizards became scarce. And it conveniently happened that the same substance was found in the skin-glands of the tortoise. Amor Skin may be purchased for $16.50 by women between the ages of 20 and 35. Older women who crave tortoise skin glands must...
...called "Game-Eating Adventures," beginning with the hump-backed whale luncheon given by Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn and Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews at the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan), and running a terrific, far-flung menu of elephant, loggerhead turtle, capybara (large South American rodent), howling-monkey, armadillo, iguana (lizard), Orinoco crocodile, diamond-back rattlesnake, stewed octopus, argus pheasant and muntjac ("barking-deer") in Borneo, sambar and gaur (deer) and manis (scaly anteater) in India...