Webster's Tenth says it originated in 1886 in the sense that
we use it.
Webster's New International (1922) does not even have it in
that sense.
The earliest work that I remember coming across it was
Hemingway in THE SUN ALSO RISES, 1926.
The last sentence of Chapter Four reads: "It is awfully easy
to be hard-boiled about something in the daytime, but at
night it's another thing."
(Jake Barnes after Lady Brett has left his room to go off
with the Greek tycoon/count?)
I have to admit that someone else pointed this out to me. I
apologize that I don't remember who it was.
Jack Bludis
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