burgomaster

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In 1914 Adolphe Max had been Brussels' burgomaster for five years when the Kaiser's armies clomped over the border.

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The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory.

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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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Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster.

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Then I said, 'Heaven is not cruel, but just;' and I vowed a vow, to repay our burgomaster every shilling an I could.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles