Word: traun
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...heroine is Baroness Milli von Kailern, 23, unmarried and disenchanted with life in the Socialist, poverty-stricken Vienna of 1926. When her love for stuffy Prince Wieland Traun is rebuffed, Milli despairingly gives herself to another young man, in what may well be the most tepidly described seduction in contemporary literature: "One day in their flat, when his mother was out for a couple of hours only, he began to undress me . . . That I was a virgin surprised...
...Bavaria and western Austria, rain fell steadily for two weeks. The Inn, Traun, Enns and Ilz Rivers, swollen and heavy with flotsam, emptied into the surging Danube. At points of confluence, Passau and Linz, there was catastrophe. At Linz, in three days, the Danube doubled in width and tripled in depth, forcing 15,000 people to leave their homes. At Passau the river stage was 40 feet, 22 inches higher than the previous record...
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