loan shark

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noun lender charging much interest

verb. offer loan money; set up in business

verb. finance

noun. a greedy person

verb. loan, accommodate

noun. bestower

verb. loan, accommodate

We know that every subject now has its literature, from "votes for women" to the extermination of the house fly or the loan shark.

Then the loan shark sends in a statement of the account, and, if the manufacturer complains, begins to show his teeth.

"Say, five hundred dollars," the loan shark generously offered.

We are solving the "loan shark" evil at the present time in nearly the same way that they solved it seven centuries ago.