Word: trippers
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Near Canterbury in England there is a title brush grown field. The Vagabond has been led to believe that it is from this small plot of ground that the English derive their term "tripper" for the more conventionally known traveller," or more simply "American." In that field buried beneath grass that has not felt the mower's scythe for years and overgrown with moss which foxes scuffle in wild fear there lies a little marble slab. As men walk over this buried stone they trip. If, after recovering balance, the traveller stoops to examine, he will find that in this...