Word: hackensacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when she graduated from high school, she got a job in the Hackensack office of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and for eight hours a day, at least, put her mind on card files and customers' complaints. That was where James Steward first saw her. He was the advertising manager, a graduate of Alabama University, 22, quiet and reserved. Jessie's brown eyes stopped him in his tracks...
...learned to walk again. She even learned to drive a car. She was determined to have a job, and she leased a shop in Hackensack, opened a beauty parlor, hired operators. There she stayed on the job six days a week, from 9 in the morning till 6 at night. Pity was the one thing she shied from. In defiance of it, she played golf, rode horseback. She even devised little tricks to make her disability less grim. One was to bend over, slap her ankle as though she had a mosquito bite. Her friends forgot to pity her, laughed...