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‘Milk Punch, o Wisky?’ –

the contents of Pinkerton’s drinks cabinet The American consul in Nagasaki in 1912, in Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly, an experienced diplomat named Sharpless, was no doubt generous with his hospitality to visiting American citizens. So when Sharpless visits Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton in order to discuss his intended marriage ceremony to a Japanese girl, Pinkerton...

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