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Hays

noun

1.

United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954). Synonyms: Will Hays, William Harrison Hays.

2.

United States lawyer involved in several famous court trials (1881-1954). Synonym: Arthur Garfield Hays.

3.

A town in central Kansas.

Hay

noun

1.

Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder.

verb

1.

Convert (plant material) into hay.

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"Hays" Quotes from Famous Books

... when virgins meet To dance the hays with nimble feet, Thou shalt come forth and then appear The queen of roses for ...

— The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Christopher Marlowe

... San Francisco trembling, C. W. Hays, the director of geology in the geological survey, explained that earthquakes are, according to modern scientific theory, caused by subterranean land slides, the result of a readjustment as between the solid and the molten parts of ...

— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum

... in anticipation of this visit that the Brethren of King David's Lodge, of which Brother Moses Michael Hays[10] was Worshipful Master, that a masonic greeting to General WASHINGTON was proposed. The following entry from the old Minute Book of the Lodge will explain why ...

— Washington's Masonic Correspondence - As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress • Julius F. Sachse

... 9 P.M.), Hays' brigade of French's corps had been posted on the right, in rear and oblique to Berry's second line. The latter had greatly strengthened his position with log breastworks, etc. Captain Best, of the 4th United States Artillery, in the meantime had exerted himself to collect forty or fifty ...

— Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Campaigns of the Civil War - VI • Abner Doubleday

... in Columbia, Tenn.—A fatal street encounter occurred at that place, on the 3d inst., between Richard H. Hays, attorney at law, and Wm. Polk, brother to the Hon. Jas. K. Polk. The parties met, armed with pistols, and exchanged shots simultaneously. A buck-shot pierced the brain of Hays, and he died early the next morning. The quarrel grew out of a sportive ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

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