Word: curvetting
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Gloucester's mount got out of hand and had to be pulled back into line by two Guards officers. Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly. The King looked around anxiously as his daughter, trimly uniformed as a Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, brought her mount under control. The King walked over to congratulate Elizabeth on her horsemanship. The only other near-casualty reported was a drummer who fainted in the heat and lost his hat. His flanking comrades held him erect until the show was over...
...upper air. With a two-cycle, five-man act, the perennial Wallendas outdo their past achievements on the high wire. As of yore, The Flying Councellos leap, Elly Ardelty stands on her head on the flying trapeze, Massi-milliano Truzzi juggles flaming torches. Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards...
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