Hays
Midwest college town
Hays is a surname, most notably associated with Will H.
Hays, whose name became attached to the Hays Code—the Motion Picture Production Code that governed Hollywood content from the 1930s to 1960s.
The code restricted depictions of sex, violence, and immorality in American films.
Hays is also a city in Kansas. (Lowercase hays relates to dried fodder.)
Central American plains state
Official content restriction
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- decencyMoral appropriateness in behavior
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
restriction · guidelines · standards · production · cinema · taboo · enforcement · compliance
Male name, nickname
- commissionerAppointed agency leader
- czarAbsolute ruler or appointee
- politicianElected government official
- PresbyterianElder-governed Protestant denomination
Kansas
Central American plains state
censorship
Official content restriction
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- decencyMoral appropriateness in behavior
prohibition · restriction · guidelines · standards · production · cinema · taboo · enforcement · compliance · puritanical
Will
Male name, nickname
- commissionerAppointed agency leader
- czarAbsolute ruler or appointee
- politicianElected government official
- Kansas PlacesConcordia, Russell, Lincoln, Phillipsburg, Osborne
- I-70 PlacesDenver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Columbus, Indianapolis
- KansasWichita, Dodge City, Lawrence, Topeka, Kansas City
- Plains CitiesBismarck, Fargo, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Sioux City
- recruitersrecruiter, headhunters, headhunter, staffing agencies, recruiting firm
- Texas CountiesHarris, Dallas, Travis, El Paso, Galveston
HaysHugh Hefner
Lenny Bruce · permissiveness · sexual revolution · free expression · Mae West
Haysartistic freedom
Right to create unrestrained
uncensored · X-rated · permissiveness · European cinema · underground film
HaysNew York City
America's largest city
Los Angeles · Hollywood · San Francisco · metropolis · coastal elite
- needle in a haystackExtremely difficult thing to locate
- hay feverAllergic rhinitis from pollen
- hit the hayGo to sleep, informally
- hitting the hayGoing to bed
- go haywireMalfunction chaotically
- hay balesCompressed dried grass blocks
hay, haystack, haywire, hayloft, hayfield, hayfever, haymaker