From Swiss Family Manhattan, by Christopher Morley:

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Although so young, Otto was a persistent arguer; he rarely assented without reservation to anything his brother said, and so often began his sentences with "Yes, but"--which he pronounced Yebbut--that the word had become his nickname.

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"Dictate to me!" she cried at last. "I don't mind dying if I can take dictation."

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[Mannequin dept.]
Like birds of paradise rich millinery idols perched in caves of glass, looked out in a bright fixity of simper.

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I was no longer just the perplexed father of a castaway family and the conscientious breadwinner. I was a thoughtwinner.

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[Things pick up when we meet a Jeremy Edwards female protagonist type called Gazelle(!). (I thought there might be a Giselle in Swiss Family Robinson, which this would be meant as a play on, but I found no evidence of that, so I think "Gazelle" is just pure whimsical aptness.)]

"I am usually the most conventional of men, but circumstances very extraordinary--"
"That's the kind of circumstances I like."

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[Instead of messages in bottles...]

"So I considered," she said, "that in such an emergency it was more than ever desirable for us to get in touch with the more thoughtful class of the inhabitants. I could think of no more certain way of doing so than by throwing out some of your index-cards."

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"O noble hyperbole, said I (addressing the Empire State Building), I will be worthy of thee!
[N.B. The parenthetical there is Morley's, not mine.]

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It boasted "the largest Little Theatre in the world."

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"Voltaire at Ferney, like an electric refrigerator secreting his crystalline cubes of clear reason!"

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Congenially squeezed into Gazelle's yellow car, the Scrambled Egg, we three drove downtown to the address given us.

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[Living Punctuation dept.]
The rising fragrance of Gretchen's admirable grilled kidneys or veal cutlets broiled in Gruyère put a period to my application. [I.e., his work came to a full stop.]

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That is what a philosopher should be, a windshield wiper for humanity.
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[Bonus: The nickname "Moonlight Saving," borne by a minor character who comes to life after dark.]

[Incidentally, I could find no literary evidence of those two dedicatees whom Morley calls "Practitioners of Laughter." Maybe he meant it literally, and they were professional first-night claquers!]