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

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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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The burgomaster, feeling his responsibilities, grew nervous and asked for police reserves; he was promised 30 men for Sunday morning.

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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