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They went on to describe him as a sleuth of the older school, as an advocate of the now obsolete "third-degree" methods, and as a product of the "machine" which had so long and so flagrantly placed politics before efficiency. Blake put down the papers, lighted a cigar, sat back, and let the truth of what he had read percolate into his actual consciousness.
He had faith in the old-fashioned "third-degree" dodges. At these, in his ponderous way, he became an adept, looking on the nervous system of his subject as a nut, to be calmly and relentlessly gnawed at until the meat of truth lay exposed, or to be cracked by the impact of some sudden great shock. Nor was the Second Deputy above resorting to the use of "plants."
"The Visitor is giving you the rush of your young life, and we're all on. Take a handful of my beauties." "You mean Mr. Canning? My dear Chas, if he only were!" There was no rebuffing the Cooneys. They began their little third-degree system. "He called on you last Thursday afternoon, didn't he, Cally?" said Looloo, laughing, with a little face for her daring. "One call, my dear child!"
His wading boots and his rod and creel would, he hoped, account for any haste he might betray in losing himself somewhere. Lose himself he must. If he did not, if his mother got the chance to put him through the tearful third-degree system that women employ with such deadly certainty of success, Jack knew that he would tell all that he knew perhaps more.
Mayfair," Mr. Pyecroft suggested gently, "that you are the one who is only bluffing. You have a suspicion, and are trying to find evidence to support it." "I know, I tell you!" "Then may I inquire to whom young Mr. De Peyster is married?" "I know all right!" "Ah, then, you don't really know," said Mr. Pyecroft mildly. "I know, I tell you!" Mr. Mayfair repeated in his sharp, third-degree manner.
I inferred that this third-degree sweating process was being inflicted in order to extort some kind of a confession, though what my captors wished me to confess I could not for my life imagine. As I was really in a state of delirium, with high fever, I had an insatiable thirst. The only liquids given me were hot saline solutions.
His outward calmness exasperated Leverage. From this point of the interview, the chief of police would have dropped the attitude of trustful friendliness and resorted to a little practical third-degree stuff. He was fairly quivering with eagerness to bluster about the room and extract information by main force.
I haven't a great deal of confidence in third-degree methods; but I'm letting Cranston have a fling at it on the chance that Podmore will drop a stitch. He's yellow enough for anything. "Now, here's where you come in, Phil. Podmore thinks you intend to help him out and that is exactly what I want you to pretend to do. We'll stage a little drama and we'll have you on the carpet along with him.
"We'd better watch ourselves; that thing is giving off plenty of ultraviolet. We could end up with third-degree sunburns if we're not careful." Suddenly he stopped and looked around in surprise. "Hey! Morey! I thought you said this was a double star! Look over there! That's no white dwarf it's a planet!" "Ridiculous!" snapped Morey.
A common example of this sort of pricing is volume discounts. Third-degree price discrimination occurs when the producer sells output to different people for different prices, but every unit of output sold to a given person sells for the same price. This is the most common form of price discrimination, and examples include senior citizens' discounts, student discounts, and so on."
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