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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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, with relish rather than resolution, did so immediately.

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

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"What have we to do with that," said the burgomaster, "save and except that if thou wilt pledge thyself to break the law no more, I will remit the imprisonment, and exact but the fine."

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