"a nice girl like you"

[Ron Butters]

The variant with "kid " for "girl" seems only to go back to 1966
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From: Garson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Saturday, June 25, 2011 2:02:49 PM GMT-0400
Subject: Re: [ADS-L] "a nice girl like you"

After additional probing: here is a link into an edition of
BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara that Google Books claims is dated 1935.

http://books.google.com/books?id=kxItAAAAIAAJ&q=%22nice+girl%22#search_anchor

Garson O'Toole wrote
> John O'Hara published the high-profile bestseller BUtterfield 8 in
> 1935. Google Books has placed the 1935 edition in "no preview" mode.
> But it is possible to use "Amazon Look Inside" to search in the Modern
> Library Classics edition. It contains a variant of the expression that
> JL is asking about:
>
> "What are you doing here. anyway?"
> "You mean what is a nice girl like me doing in a place like this," said Eddie.
>

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