burgomaster
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The stereotype of the small-city mayor is a Babbittish burgomaster who divides his time between Rotary luncheons and Boy Scout wiener roasts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mild-mannered Frank Zeidler behaves more like a conservative burgomaster than a doctrinaire Socialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says Willi Kaiser, the burgomaster of Bedburg, which includes the village of Kaster: "In the end people are usually satisfied."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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It needed unyielding strength and indomitable courage to carry out such an undertaking, but these were qualifications which the burgomaster possessed, and had at an early age learned to employ.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Bull, Jacob B.
