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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Says Willi Kaiser, the burgomaster of Bedburg, which includes the village of Kaster: "In the end people are usually satisfied."

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

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Gerard stole not the trash; he but took it to spite the burgomaster who stole his liberty; but he shall answer to the duke for it, he shall.

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