Hughes, Charles Evans

Hughes, Charles Evans |hyo͞oz hjuz | (1862 –1948 ), US chief justice 1930 –41. A US Supreme Court associate justice 1910 –16, he resigned from the Court to run against Woodrow Wilson for the presidency. He was US secretary of state 1921 –25 and was appointed chief justice by President Hoover in 1930.

Hughes, Howard

Hughes, Howard |(h )juz hyo͞oz | (1905 –76 ), US industrialist, movie producer, and aviator; full name Howard Robard Hughes. Having acquired a fortune through his father's tool company, he began producing movies in the 1920s and broke many world aviation records during the 1930s. He lived as a recluse for the last 25 years of his life. Notable movies: Hell's Angels (1930 ) and The Outlaw (1941 ).

Hughes, Langston

Hughes, Langston |(h )juz hyo͞oz | (1902 –67 ), US writer; full name James Mercer Langston Hughes. A leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance, he began a prolific literary career with The Weary Blues (1926 ), a series of poems on black themes, using blues and jazz rhythms. Other poetry collections include The Negro Mother (1931 ) and Shakespeare in Harlem (1941 ).

Hughes, Ted

Hughes, Ted |(h )juz hyo͞oz | (1930 –98 ), English poet; full name Edward James Hughes. His vision of the natural world as a place of violence, terror, and beauty pervades his work. He served as Britain's poet laureate 1984 –98. Hughes was married to Sylvia Plath, a marriage he recounted in Birthday Letters (1998 ). Other notable works: The Hawk in the Rain (1957 ) and Crow (1970 ).

Hughie

Hughie |ˈhjuːi | ▶noun Austral. /NZ informal an imaginary being held to be responsible for the weather. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: diminutive of the given name Hugh .

Hughes, Charles Evans

Hughes, Charles Evans |hyo͞oz hjuz | (1862 –1948 ), US chief justice 1930 –41. A US Supreme Court associate justice 1910 –16, he resigned from the Court to run against Woodrow Wilson for the presidency. He was US secretary of state 1921 –25 and was appointed chief justice by President Hoover in 1930.

Hughes, Howard

Hughes |hjuːz | (1905 –76 ), American industrialist, film producer, and aviator; full name Howard Robard Hughes. He made his fortune through the Hughes Tool Company, made his debut as a film director in 1926, and from 1935 to 1938 broke many world aviation records. For the last twenty-five years of his life he lived as a recluse.

Hughes, Langston

Hughes |hjuːz | (1902 –67 ), American writer; full name James Mercer Langston Hughes. He began a prolific literary career with The Weary Blues (1926 ), a series of poems on black themes using blues and jazz rhythms. Other poetry collections include The Negro Mother (1931 ).

Hughes, Ted

Hughes |hjuːz | (1930 –98 ), English poet; full name Edward James Hughes. His vision of the natural world as a place of violence, terror, and beauty pervades his work. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984. Hughes was married to Sylvia Plath.

Hughie

Hughie |ˈhjuːi | ▶noun Austral. /NZ informal an imaginary being held to be responsible for the weather. ORIGIN early 20th cent.: diminutive of the given name Hugh .

Hughestelegraf

Hughes te le graf , Hughes-Te le graf Substantiv, maskulin , der Hughes-Telegraf |ˈhjuːz … ˈhjuːz …|der Hughestelegraf; Genitiv: des Hughestelegrafen, Plural: die Hughestelegrafen der Hughes-Telegraf; Genitiv: des Hughes-Telegrafen, Plural: die Hughes-Telegrafen nach dem englischen Physiker D. E. Hughes, 1831 –1900 Telegraf, der am Empfänger direkt Buchstaben druckt

Hugh

Hugh /hjuː /名詞 ヒュー 〘男の名; 異形Hew, Hu, Huey 〙.