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This libation, invented at the Detroit Athletic Club, is called the Last Word. It’s a chilled, verdant, pungent combination of gin, maraschino liqueur, lime and green Chartreuse, an herbal liqueur concocted 400 years ago by French monks. “In cocktail geekdom, few drinks get more discussed and dissected than the Last Word,” wrote Tan Vinh, a Seattle journalist who researched that city’s hottest drink and found its popularity had spread to cocktail lounges around the world. No one at the DAC had heard about the Last Word until Vinh contacted the club earlier this year. Staffers searched the archives of the DAC News, the club’s monthly magazine, plus old menus and other ephemera. They found nothing. That’s because it had been more than 80 years since the DAC invented the drink — a product of Prohibition in the 1920s.