burgomaster

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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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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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On the Carters' trip to Germany, Rosalynn delighted the burgomaster of Linz by grabbing his arms and rushing him into a polka-like Schunkeltanz in the street.

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

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Dame Louise," said Gaguine, trying to avoid my look, "is the widow of the old burgomaster of the town.

From Annouchka A Tale by Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich