Word: kronen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prague, are well primed with "House organ" facts about The Founder. They know that at the age of six he teased and teased until his shoemaker father whittled him out a tiny last on which with boyish zeal he pegged toy shoes. At 18 the Founder had saved 400 kronen ($80), the fruit of hard pegging and self denial. Also his sister Anna and his brother Anthony (now dead) had each saved 400 kronen, so runs the legend. Thereupon, in 1894, with a total capital of $240, the three Bat'as founded their own small shoe factory...
...later added "fatuous, fulsome," because of his devotion to a silly mother, self-styled "Petal." Bankrupt, Pirate Loveday shipped for foreign parts as partner to a professional dancer. In Budapest he attempted his own interpretation of "keeping company," but Loveday "whooshed"' off to London, on the "wadge" of kronen which a Hungarian tart pulled generously out of her stocking...
...wall by the many disgruntled office holders whom he has dismissed as a matter of national economy. The entire civil service-the most rapaciously organized bureaucracy in Europe-had virtually threatened to strike if their combined salaries were not raised by the staggering total of 3,081,000,000 kronen ($445,000,000). Chancellor Ramek prudently evaded responsibility for unbalancing his budget by resigning. During the week President Michael Hainisch gave no inkling of whom he would call to the Chancellory...
Controlling himself with an effort, Judge Toereky read out M. Geroe's sentence: two years at hard labor and a fine of 2,000,000 kronen...
With eyes swollen and tongue faltering, the judge read out their sentences: each to be imprisoned for four years, each to pay a 10,000,000 kronen ($14,000) fine, each to be "ineligible to hold public office for three years...