He was a gentleman, a great personage and an enormous loss to Great Britain when he was killed.

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In his place lived James Lawrence Fahey, a respected personage who had chaired a curling club and even been mayor of a small town.

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No less a personage than U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R Texas) is demanding an outside audit of the Fed, in part to get an answer to this question.

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Much more, this case indelibly associates a hero businessman with the single most notorious personage in recent financial history, the very emblem of the greed that caused the meltdown.

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The German papers portrayed the G20 meeting of world leaders in Mexico as the G19 against one - with no prizes for guessing who the solitary stand-alone was: Germany, in the personage of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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It is comforting to know that in the Royal Box the lucky few still sit in dark green Lloyd Loom wicker chairs, from which (of course) they must rise which cannot be easy whenever a royal personage arrives.

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