Crossword-Solution: HOLERS 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

There were no service stations with fancy restrooms in those days- -only greasy garages with gasoline pumps out in front on the curbs and two-holers out back by the alley, all of which were dirty and smelly.

These shoemakers--lasters, button-holers, binders, and so on--no longer wore themselves out over their machines.

Whether it is "the" great American novel is of interest only to literary politicians and pigeon-holers; it is "a" great novel, whether of America or Europe, and that suffices for the lover of belles lettres.

Now it is a fact that I have never called myself a 'realist,' and I have never put forth any work as 'realism.' I decline the labels of the schoolmen and the sophisters: being a simple writer of tales, who takes whatever means lie to his hand to present life as he sees it; who insists on no process; and who refuses to be bound by any formula or prescription prepared by the cataloguers and the pigeon-holers of literature.

One of them commenced picking into a slim streak of gravel at the base of the red hard-pan bank left by the pot-holers.