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 King Ban.King Cole. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
King Cash,
 
what the Americans call the “Almighty Dollar.”   1
       
“Now birth and rank and bleeding,
Hardly saved from utter smash,
Have been ousted, rather roughly,
By the onslaught of King Cash.”
       
Truth (Christmas Number, 1892, p. 19.)
 


 King Ban.King Cole. 

 
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