A second paroxysm and intermission of the same duration appears on the second day; then a third paroxysm, sometimes, though not always, milder than the two preceding, on the second night, followed by an apyrexial period of twelve or eighteen hours

National Guards and Soldiers of the line […] fall into disorderly street-processions, constitutional unmilitary exclamations and hurrahings.

“The United States in the twenties was dotted with a thousand Xanadus,” wrote movie-theater historian Ben Hall."

Our hearts petrificated were.