Crossword-Solution: FIESTAS 7 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Delegates actually appeared from all five republics, attended fiestas, gave expression to pious wishes, and went home! Later still, in 1902, the respective Presidents signed a "convention of peace and obligatory arbitration" as a means of adjusting perpetual disagreements about politics and boundaries; but nothing was done to carry these ideas into effect.

Let a few months pass and you will change your opinion, after you have attended a lot of fiestas and _bailúhan_, slept on cots, and eaten your fill of _tinola_." "Ah, is this thing that you call _tinola_ a variety of lotus which makes people--er--forgetful?" "Nothing of the kind!" exclaimed Fray Damaso with a smile.

You admit persons of bad character into your fiestas, Señor Ibarra." Ibarra looked him over from head to foot and replied with great disdain, "I don't have to give you an account of my actions! At our fiestas all are welcome.

They hold fiestas in their cloisters, they erect little theaters, they compose poems, because, as they are not devoid of intelligence in spite of believing in the fifteenth century, they realize that the Jesuits are right, and they will still take part in the future of the younger peoples that they have reared." "So, according to you, the Jesuits keep up with progress?" asked Don Filipo in wonder.

Along with gambling, which breeds dislike for steady and difficult toil by its promise of sudden wealth and its appeal to the emotions, with the lotteries, with the prodigality and hospitality of the Filipinos, went also, to swell this train of misfortunes, the religious functions, the great number of fiestas, the long masses for the women to spend their mornings and the novenaries to spend their afternoons, and the night, for the processions and rosaries.