Word: bonifacius
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...their candor. He did not even try to conceal the pain that his neglect had caused his wife, or paint out the sadness imprinted on his children's faces (see color). In time the painting joined the collection of Basilius Ame-bach, whose wise and scholarly father, Bonifacius (see color), began rounding up Holbein canvases during the first convulsive years of the Reformation. After Basilius' death, the city and the university bought the Amerbach collection, which they own to this day. It is Basel's permanent tribute to an illustrious family -and to the son it lost...
...present Governor of Netherlands Indies, Jonkheer Bonifacius de Jonge, also knew Mr. Baldwin during ten years in London where the Governor was a high official of Royal Dutch Shell. Too hopeful, perhaps, Dutchmen who fear Japan and know that Britain shares their fear now speak of "our white front" in the Far East, something as intangible as the Anglo-French entente before the World War and yet, perhaps, something equally decisive...
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