Noun
United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)
Source: WordNetHoward Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. Ted Morgan
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was. Martin Scorsese
Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone. Esther Williams
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. Gene Tierney
They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years. Jane Russell
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. Michael Fox