Hayes

(hāz), Helen 1900-1993.

American actress noted for her long stage career and for her roles in such films as The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), for which she won an Academy Award.

Rutherford Hayes

Hayes

, Rutherford Birchard 1822-1893.

The 19th president of the United States (1877-1881). Winning the controversial election of 1876 by one electoral vote, he pacified the South by removing federal troops (1877), vetoed a bill restricting Chinese immigration (1879), and stemmed a congressional attempt to weaken the presidency.

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Hayes

(heɪz)

(Biography) Rutherford B(irchard). 1822–93, 19th president of the US (1877–81)

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Hayes

(heɪz)

n.

1. Helen (Helen Hayes Brown MacArthur), 1900–93, U.S. actress.

2. Rutherford B(irchard), 1822–93, 19th president of the U.S. 1877–81.

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Noun	1.	Hayes - acclaimed actress of stage and screen (1900-1993) Helen Hayes
	2.	Hayes - 19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893) President Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford Birchard Hayes

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Reuben Hayes's manner was far from gracious, but Holmes took it with admirable good-humour.

Reuben Hayes," said Holmes, coolly, "one might think that you were afraid of our finding something out."

"I am convinced," said I, "that this Reuben Hayes knows all about it.

Reuben Hayes was arrested at Chesterfield, on my information, at eleven o'clock last night.

"James came into contact with this fellow Hayes, because the man was a tenant of mine, and James acted as agent.

I yielded--as I have always yielded--to his prayers, and instantly James hurried off to the Fighting Cock to warn Hayes and give him the means of flight.

This fellow Hayes had shod his horses with shoes which counterfeited the tracks of cows.

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While in the midst of this bureaucratic house- cleaning he met Hubbard, who had just been appointed by President Hayes as the head of a commission on mail transportation.

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A splendid seaman, I am certain, but a Bully Hayes grown old.

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But from the rising ground near Hayes Barton, the house in which he was born, we catch sight of the sea.

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Turning to the right at the cemetery, they climbed the Piedmont Heights to Blair Park and plunged into the green coolness of Jack Hayes Canyon.

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Burke, Thurtell, and Hayes, of Thavies Inn) and dared the Company to refuse the payment.

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