burgomaster
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The Queen's Commissioner arrived, Burgomaster Witschey said grace in Dutch, and dinner proceeded: three stout courses followed by brandy and a speech by the burgomaster.
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Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster.
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Mild-mannered Frank Zeidler behaves more like a conservative burgomaster than a doctrinaire Socialist.
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So. too. it seemed last week when, on the Vienna model, a new burgomaster and four vice burgomasters were appointed for Sofia by government decree.
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The burgomaster and aldermen could not deny this fundamental piece of historical logic.
From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
