Sentence:  There is a legend about each; she is either an angel of purity and light, or a beautiful monster of iniquity; she has turned the heads of kings—'kings' in a vaguely royal plural— completely round on their shoulders, or she has built out of her earnings a hospital for crippled children; the watery-sentimental eye of the <WSD>flash crowd</WSD> in its cups sees in her a Phryne, a Mrs. Fry, or a Saint Cecilia. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (obsolete) The fashionable public.