Thers at Whiskey Fire has dug up a very amusing 1923 editorial from the Catholic Bulletin, responding to W.B. Yeats’ winning the Nobel prize for literature:

It is common knowledge that the line of recipients of the Nobel Prize shows that a reputation for Paganism in thought and word is a very considerable advantage in the sordid annual race for money, engineered, as it always is, by clubs, coteries, salons and cliques. Paganism in prose or poetry has, it seems, its solid cash value; and if a poet does not write tawdry verse to make his purse heavier, he can be brought by his admirers to where money is, whether in the form of an English pension, or in extracts from the Irish taxpayer’s pocket, or in the Stockholm dole.

Rightly labeling this a classic of the genre of “hysterical conservative small-minded ‘patriotic’ comical outrage,” Thers adds:

This is fantastic stuff. “The Stockholm dole” is quite good — exactly the sort of thing that would nowadays earn its originator an Insty link, something far more to be cherished than the approbation of any dynamite-financed anti-Christian Swedes.

(Re Insty link.)