Word: burgher
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Born in Scotland 50 years ago, she came to South Africa with her father shortly before the Boer War. A burgher of the Orange Free State, her father rode in a commando against the British. When union came, Margaret, a homely girl with an intelligent face, began a schooling that carried her through South Africa's colleges and England's Oxford...
...Empire had come to him by birth; his paternal ancestors had migrated from Holland more than a century before; he himself had grown up as an old-stock Dutchman among alien but ruling British colonials. Now he declaimed against naked imperialism, shed his British citizenship, trekked north, became a burgher and a leader of the Transvaal Republic...
...German burgher, this was the blackest New Year since Versailles. No oratory, no promise of retribution could conceal the vast and calamitous defeat in the East...
...chief of state there is loyalty to the state and to the caste. Many an observer has guessed that on the eve of Germany's defeat the caste may betray Hitler, pick a Junker-perhaps Manstein-to play the Teutonic Petain. For, despite defeat and despair, the German burgher of today has no greater military idol than Manstein...
...wenches' joy did not exceed that of the Rhineland menfolk. In Cologne the reaction of a dignified German burgher on his way by street car to a funeral in crape arm band and black stovepipe hat was significant. On hearing the glorious rumor, he swung off the street car and bustled toward Cathedral Square, where the first troops were expected to arrive, puffing: "The first soldier I get my hands on is going to get as cockeyed-drunk at my expense as I did when I was a soldier in 1914-and I'm going to get cockeyed...