From The Elephant is White, by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon:

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["Margarine" as a color dept.]
A number of utility shops lurked dimly behind faded blue, pink, and margarine façades.

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Save for a pair of tortoiseshell glasses drinking all by itself the room was empty.

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"And every year when the ice on the great rivers melts, they take their yacht, the Boris Goudonov--and go to see," Nina frowned, "a cow."

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"Who is this Averchenko?" asked Pete jealously. "A Russian poet?"
"But no," said Nina. "He is a humorist, only very funny. Whenever two Russians meet in a railway carriage and laugh very loud, it is because they have just remembered something in Averchenko."

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His mind was already busy with the intricate matter of inconspicuously inserting a better borscht into a conversation about Surrealism.

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"My subconscious," said Raphael with pride, "is probably the most energetic subconscious outside Krafft-Ebbing."

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The taxi bore its load of luggage like an Edwardian duchess wearing a floral hat at a garden party.

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Clockwork elephants ran Donald Ducks right off the streets of Paris.
[That's poetic license, I assume: "Donald Ducks," in this context, reads funnier than the technically correct "Donalds Duck." (;v>]
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[Bonus: Some names!]
le Comte Sans-Blague (JC-E precursor alert! https://www.salticid.com/jce/jceart.html)
the Marquis de Sang-Froid
Miss Penguin (a school instructor)
Kibitzer Incorporated (a film studio)