"Take Me to Your Leader"

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Fri Feb 9 16:44:08 UTC 2007


On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:17:39AM -0500, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Isn't there a New Yorker cartoon?  Someone with the CD might be able
> to look it up.

Not only has someone already done this, but the evidence of
it is in the very post you're responding to :). From your own
message:

> >See Yale Book of Quotations, page 320, for apparent source of this
> >expression in a 1953 New Yorker cartoon ("Kindly take us to your
> >President!").

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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