Word: burlesquiest
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...Hasty Pudding has plainly been shaking itself for its theatricals this season. Of late years it has confined itself to producing the burlesquiest of burlesques, with now and then a touch or two of the Hoyt Drama; in "Proserpina" it now at last gives us something which can very fairly be called an operetta, an operette in the Offenbach vein. And it hardly need be said that, compared with what burlesque has grown to in our day, anything approaching Offenbach operabouffe has a strong smack of the "legitimate." We rather wonder that this sort of thing has not occurred...
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