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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"I am Eduard Witschey, the burgomaster," he said.

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Mild-mannered Frank Zeidler behaves more like a conservative burgomaster than a doctrinaire Socialist.

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

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"Take note, mate, that I was right, and the burgomaster wrong," said Dierich Brower, at the door: "I said we should be too late to catch him, and we were too late."

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