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While Mr. Rees is keen to dispel the myths ginned up by imperial writers, he doesn’t prevaricate when the evidence shows that their fears may not have been entirely unfounded.

Sweeney recalled sweating through a training run in the mid-’80 when a guy behind him sniffed and asked, “Pete, did you drink gin last night?”

At the end of July, company leaders gathered at Starbucks headquarters in Seattle to review the latest financial performance and gin up excitement among its corporate employees for the launch of the new service mandates.

“Any time a cotton gin burned down in the South, they pointed to the Wide Awakes and other more radical antislavery Northerners and said, ‘This is arson.’”

One critic said that she was one of Britain's two great contributions to jazz - the other being gin.