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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



... Mr. Hays, the venerable minister, was a gentle, kind-hearted man; the children in the Sunday school listened to him with attention, and their parents loved to hear his sermons. He had the rare faculty of interesting children, and when he addressed them, the teachers had ...
— The Old Stone House • Anne March
 
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... came here), "I can't go looking like this; I must be a little better dressed to go into a public meeting of any kind; I am not accustomed to go looking like this, with nothing on my neck." He said, "Very well, something shall come to you;" and Mrs. Hays, who is Assistant Nurse in our Ward, brought me a plate of food and fruit, such as is ...
— Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum • Mary Huestis Pengilly
 
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... to break the summer-peace of the stranded Tannhauser, who slowly began to feel at home in France as in other countries he had thought more homelike. At length, like other dead Americans, he went to Paris because he could go nowhere else, and lingered there till the Hays came by, in January, 1898; and Mrs. Hay, who had been a stanch and strong ally for twenty years, bade him ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams
 
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... a large scale. This was the school of Alexander Hays, an emancipated slave of the Fowler family of Maryland. Hays succeeded his wife as a teacher. He soon had the support of such prominent men as Rev. Doctor Sampson, William Winston Seaton and R.S. Coxe. Joseph T. and Thomas H. Mason and Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher were Hays's contemporaries. ...
— The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 • Carter Godwin Woodson
 
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... race through some remote ancestor; the Mosenthals, Abrahams, Phillipps, and other notabilities of the Rand and Kimberley, were Jews, and one among the so-called Reformers, associated with the Jameson Raid, was an American engineer, John Hays Hammond. ...
— Cecil Rhodes - Man and Empire-Maker • Princess Catherine Radziwill
 
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