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Tuppeny was a tall, cheerful man who seldom worked without a clipboard.

Tuppeny was active there until a month ago.

In 1966, Tuppeny became the head track and cross-country coach at Pennsylvania.

Sitting, as he was, next to me I therefore had to eat half of Tuppeny (Onepenny?

James Patrick Tuppeny was born Sept. 20, 1925, in Philadelphia, where he was raised.

Jim Tuppeny, an American coach, said of Brumel's quickness, "With his speed, he is actually sailing."

Tuppeny Stung: Autobiographical Chapters (1994)

The Green Goblin Book (later released in abridged form as Tuppeny, Feefo and Jinks)

At Villanova, he learned under the tutelage of head coach, Jumbo Elliott and assistant coach Jim Tuppeny.

Jim Tuppeny retired from the Penn Relays in 1987 and became executive director of athletics for the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau.

There was the money slot for a tuppeny, but under it, there were two buttons, A and B. Reading the directions carefully, Cranston dropped his twopence in the slot.

I thought of Tuppeny and Snowytoes, our neighbour's guinea pigs back home, and realised that they would not have enjoyed a long and happy life at La Hornilla.

In local parlance the area was known as the "obliss", it was a destination point for both trams and busses, so passengers, - if they so wished - could ask for a "tuppeny to the obliss please guv."

Johnson later confessed to the murders of five women: Patricia Sullivan, Elizabeth Tuppeny, Joanne Feliciano, Vivian Caraballo and Laura Nusser, all of whom had arrest records for prostitution and drug offenses, and were themselves addicts.

Guinea pigs would have their own story told in the tale of Tupenny in Potter's The Fairy Caravan of 1929.

Used adjectivally, tupenny, tupenny-hay'penny, and threpenny were common.

Both "Tupenny Nudger" and "Leningrad" were under heavy rotation on Zane Lowe's Radio One Evening show.

They were once signed to Nottingham's Field Records, and while with the label released the well received "LaFaro EP" in 2006 containing the lead track "Tupenny Nudger".

Most recently "Tupenny Nudger" was awarded the title of 'Best Northern Irish song of the past 5 years' in a poll conducted by AU magazine, the results of which were published in October 2008, beating Snow Patrol and Ash.