Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interest in the Junior Prommenade has been marked during the last four or five years by a steady rate of decline. To bring to a merciful and speedy end that which is slowly dying of itself is often an act of kindness, and there is no exaggeration of the metaphor to point out here that no observance of a tradition is preferable to one which is the ghost of its former self...