Word: dreicer
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...occasion which called for such writing in behalf of a store, was a great one. With the pomp of an abdicating dynasty the Manhattan jewel firm of Dreicer was about to close its doors forever. Booklets opalescent with suave, serene opportunities to buy were being sent out under the guidance of Ivy Lee, unique public relations counsel (TIME, Oct. 4). As an item there was pictured modestly in a neat corner...
...cast the final spell over the last and final sale of the gems of Dreicer there were issued memorabilia of this glamorous House...
...post-war U. S. of the '70s came one Jacob Dreicer, young pop-eyed Polish Jew, his ear-locks but recently sheared off his pious head. A sterner immigration guard would have suspected him of exopthalmic goitre. As it was, no difficulties were made against his landing at the Battery...
...Where can I get gold for all this currency of the Confederate States of America?" was his first question. But Jacob Dreicer had another recourse for livelihood. On the inside of his innermost shirt he had sewed little velvet sacks, and each little velvet sack held a pearl. He knew pearls and emeralds, rubies and sapphires. In a way he knew diamonds too, but he did not like them, least of all when he saw them wired on the stomacher of the Manhattan dame of a Civil War profiteer. And he did love pearls; liked to caress them against...