wear the ruby slippers

[Jonathan Lighter]

A "friend of Dorothy": about 1992 in my recollection, just too late too get
into HDAS1. I remember discussing it with Jesse at the time.

JL

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Margaret Lee <mlee303 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I=A0read or heard the expression "friends of Dorothy" ten or more years
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>  but =0Acan't remember where.=0A=A0=0A--Margaret
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> ear the ruby slippers=0A=0AOn Mar 16, 2011, at 6:55 AM, crawford wrote:=0A=
> =0A> I presume the expression "wear the ruby slippers" (from=0A> The
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>  of Oz) is an oblique reference to "friends of Dorothy".=0A>=0A> Has
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