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.

From Time Magazine Archive

To Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, as to many another metropolitan burgomaster, hotel owners have recently complained most bitterly.

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

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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