Crossword-Solution: BUTTONHOLES 11 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Their employers followed an hour or so later--on the cable cars for the most part whiskered gentlemen with huge stomachs, reading the morning papers with great gravity; bank cashiers and insurance clerks with flowers in their buttonholes.

After a night behind the scenes Paul found the schoolroom more than ever repulsive; the bare floors and naked walls; the prosy men who never wore frock coats, or violets in their buttonholes; the women with their dull gowns, shrill voices, and pitiful seriousness about prepositions that govern the dative.

They spoke of the Grand Avenue workers as "that stinkin' bunch." Yet each one of the girls was capable of starting a blouse in an emergency on Saturday night and finishing it in time for a Sunday picnic, buttonholes and all.

The colours they wore, the flowers in the women's hats and the men's buttonholes belonged to the season.

The average autograph hunter, with his purposeless insistence, reminds one of the queen in Stockton's story whose fad was “the buttonholes of all nations.” In our population of eighty millions and upward there are probably two hundred thousand persons interested more or less in what is termed the literary world.