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Word: precentor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black skullcap and white neckerchief, "Father Moody" will appear this Sunday at the meeting house built the year he died. As of yore, his congregation will be drummed to meeting, the tithing man will tickle the drowsy with a rod tipped by a rabbit's foot, the precentor line out the psalms and lead the singing with a pitch pipe. The sermon will be "The Doleful State of the Damned," which Samuel Moody first preached on August 21, 1710. He will pray that Queen Anne's reign continue happy and glorious, "that this place and all other places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Doleful State | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Died. Very Rev. Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard, 56, Canon and Precentor of London's St. Paul's Cathedral. Lord Rector of Glasgow University, famed as Britain's "Broadcasting Parson"; of a heart attack; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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