Word: chattel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bond slave, chattel, fawning hound...
...Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid lover. Gwili André, a beauteous mannequin who deserted the fashion magazines for Hollywood, is the mysterious refugee suspected of being Voronsky's chattel. She falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust...
...principle of personal finance companies is that they lend up to $300 on the borrower's character, sometimes taking a chattel mortgage as additional collateral. Experience shows that only in rare cases have the mortgages been fore-closed, both because the companies do not wish to lose their goodwill and because the furniture of small borrowers has little resale value. The companies in this group lend about $500,000,000 a year, but the total small loan business is estimated at $2,592,000,000. Other agencies in the field...