Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carlos Chagas, who found that this misnamed "South American sleeping sickness" was caused by a trypanosome, a microscopic animal with a complex life cycle, transmitted to man by bugs. The critters have Latin names longer than their bodies. Brazilians call them simply barbeiros (barbers) because they bite the tender skin of the face and throat...
...support any significant therapeutic, cosmetic or nutritional value in the product for humans." Says Maison G. DeNavarre, chief chemist of Michigan's Beauty Counselors, Inc.: "Royal Queen jelly is not even for the birds. It is for the bees. It is a fad and does nothing for the skin...
...some industry leaders themselves admit that there is little any cosmetic can actually do to help the top layer of the skin, almost twice the thickness of onionskin paper. Says one beautician: "The best cosmetic is soap and water...
Inner Beauty. To their credit, more and more women are realizing that beauty is more than skin deep. They want healthy, well-formed bodies and new personalities to go with their made-up faces. Thus the growth of the cosmetics industry is being matched by the growth of reducing salons, gyms and their fellow travelers, the charm schools...
...Connor was definitely his mother's son, but, Mother being what she was, he may not have been his father's. That, at least, is his own account. Critical Britons attributed Mother's dark skin, social gaucheries and infantile giggle to the fact that her grandmother was Burmese. Father was "descended from the last High King of Ireland" and expressed his royalty in the form of detestation of "gainful occupation." As Father soon disappeared, Mother was forced to live by her wits-which she did in a London cellar with an "uncle," known as "Jacko" or "Poor...