European currency

Usage examples of krone.

And that is how I introduced her, as one of the other parents, to Hans Krone, who stood waiting at the foot of the flimsy short stairs that had been rolled up to the plane.

The sun was bright, but Krone was wearing a tan cotton overcoat that emphasized his bulk.

Surreptitious exploitation, of currency fluctuations particularly, fueled a discreet auxiliary engine of the Berlin banking boom, and I knew that Krone was a prince of that realm, too.

I had briefed Krone by phone, telling him the simple truth that my seventeen-year-old son had gone to Berlin without permission, probably for the May Day celebrations in the Soviet sector, and I wanted to find him.

I could sense in Krone now, even in his brisk greeting of the woman beside me, the assumption that there was more to her presence here than that.

When I slid in next to her, ahead of Krone, she was waiting to make eye contact with me, to flick an eyebrow, alerting me.

The midday heat had not registered on me until now, when Krone snapped his handkerchief out of his breast pocket to wipe his large forehead.

Indeed, the wobbly stairs seemed to amuse Krone, and with his large frame he shook them deliberately as he ascended, pounding his feet like a kid.

We imitated Krone in turning our backs to the policeman, each reaching to grasp a cracked leather strap and taking up a position to look out the window.

We handed them over, and Krone in turn passed them up, with his own, to the woman at the desk.

They exchanged a few words in German, then Krone motioned us along without waiting for the woman to return our passports.

I was behind Krone, and was startled to see him throw up his hands, allowing one policeman to pat him down while another eyed the form he had filled out.

The normally ingratiating Krone met my eyes coldly, as if impatient that I should have been surprised to be intimidated, even afraid.

The crowd stretched across a vast open square--Alexanderplatz, what Krone had referred to as Alex.

Their goose-stepping sent a surprised chill through me, which Krone registered.