What is "filipino"

Usage examples of "filipino".

Now, having some Americans still in Bontoc, we live in peace--except for the weakness of the Governor, who is a Filipino.

I cast a glance or two at the giant pictures of zoftig girls with silicone boobs, Carol Doda and The Persian Lamb who chained herself to the Golden Gate Bridge rather than leave her husband -- all coming at me from the fronts of tourist traps, Topless Joints with fat Filipino barkers dragging in the customers out for a score or at least a hard-on.

I myself know the Filipino senator who was asked what would be done for the Igorots under Independence.

Eighty per cent or more of those now in Hawaii are of the Ilocano tribe--thriftiest and most hard-working of all the Filipinos.

Filipinos are quite commonly found to be Ilocanos, while the members of the tribe are credited with accomplishing more steady work than any other element of the population.

Filipino creek, it was another brief call on a sat phone from Lampong out at sea that triggered the hour of departure.

THE party in the long house of the Filipino creek, it was another brief call on a sat phone from Lampong out at sea that triggered the hour of departure.

But he had an extravagantly accurate idea of what the table wanted to hear so he talked on for his father: the beheading of the Filipino thug, a typhoon off the Marshall Islands, an anaconda he bought while drunk in Recife that wound itself so tightly around the mast that it could not be detached until they offered it a piglet, the beauty of some of the horses he left in care of his crew hands in Cuba, and how some of the citizens in Singapore eat dogs, which shocked everyone at the table except One Stab who asked Tristan about Africa.

The Moro Parade in Zamboanga brought evil fruits, one of which was a hasty campaign on the part of the Filipinos to gather Moro signatures for Independence petitions.

In Zamboanga, Filipino agents now toured the Province, demanding of all Moro barrio officials that they sign Independence petitions.

He checked the balisong at his waist, the deadly Filipino folding knife that could be flicked open or closed with one hand.

If a Filipino makes the caciques hate him, who is going to protect him from cacique vengeance if America goes?

Americans first came, we taos were told, by the caciques, that Americans are all huge monsters who devour everything and who chop off the heads of every Filipino they can catch.

Commission accede to the demand for publicity in the matter of disbursements,--and the Filipino press agreed that it was not always advisable to publish expense accounts.

In the situation we were in, which was one of total, complete and utter heat and boredom and wondering what manner of crawling scabby insect you were going to dine on next, the fact of four hundred headless Filipinos was a topic for pleasant clubhouse gossip, something to discuss briefly in mild awe and almost admiration for the ginks for at least having a sense of spectacle and to be grateful for in a way because it took our minds off our own problems.